If you're a goal scorer, you have to have a certain attitude. I'm very serious. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird. I'm cold, I don't have many emotions. It's very rare I cry.

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

The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*

There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

I think God outdid Himself when He created children.

Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.