A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.