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.

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.

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.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

I was never sure what possessed Guy and Teo, 2 alien princelings to land in Paris that day.

It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.