M.L. Rio Quotes

Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

I always feel that it is quality of time not quantity of time.

I appreciate my true fans for enjoying me in what I do every day, whether interviews or playing heel. They are smart and nice people.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

I am Alberto Del Rio, but you already knew that.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson)

It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.

I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here. (on Sir Alex Ferguson)

When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.

For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.

For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.

His future now was all horizon

It’s been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius.

I am wretched. Destitute.

You kill one, there was another in his place, and what's worse, his nephew now hated you, his friend now hated you. . . . There was no end.