At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

Because if I lost her, I would be lost, too.

Why do you look like that, Duane?""Like what, Cletus?""Like your heart is diseased.

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

I just hated to lose.

I never fall in love.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.