The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A

How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity

There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.