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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.

In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.