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

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

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

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Friendships I think can also be soul mates.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.