It was a real eye opener and I'm really pleased that I spent a year out there [in Real Madrid].

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

wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

It's much easier to do a fight sequence between two people, if one of the two people in the fight is a stunt person, or you're going to risk somebody getting hurt.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

The Price Is Right can really get me going.

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'