On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but hate covers that causes evil deeds.

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.