Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being

If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

I dare you to work harder than your dream demands.

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.