In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

Such as the sun, let us love everyone, now feel and behold, the dance of your spirit and joy of your soul.

The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

You must give your own story to the world.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

If you don’t do something differently, you’ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.