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

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 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

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

Looking and seeing do not originate in your self. You are able to look in your self because looking and seeing are before your self.

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

I like my job but it's not who I am.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"