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

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

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.