There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

It’s well known that he who returns never left

Worship must occupy us full-time for a lifetime because our final destination is Heaven—it’s no place for part-time lovers!

Never sacrifice your greatest dream for a casual wish.

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Obama doesn't want to be called the deporter-in-chief.

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.