Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind.

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.