If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.