To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

I believe in gender equality.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.