There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

David Cameron was wrong on this [Brexit]. He didn't get the mood of his country right. He was very surprised to see what happened.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.