The type of game I play, I'm going to pick injuries and suspensions, unfortunately.

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.

As long as there's life, there's hope.

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.

... because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.