There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

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.

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.

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.

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

No man can ever admire a woman the way she admires herself.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

I think I understand the line between my job and the director's. I have no interest in directing. Not my movie, not your movie, nobody's movie.

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.