One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then stopped and peered at her. "Because I'm a skeleton" he explained.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

How would you describe the worst run you ever had? Precious!

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Avoid the question 'why me?.' It saves a lot of grief

Re-creative artists are investigators.