A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don't have feelings straight away

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

Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life.

Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Civility cost nothing.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.