Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.

Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

How can I escape a cage build by man?

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

People say that being in love is amazing. They lie. It's freaking terrifying.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.