My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

All nature wears one universal grin.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.