Best players I played with? Striker wise, well, I had a great record with Emile Heskey - he would be one of my favourite partnerships because we were so different and worked together so well.

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

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.