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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74

Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

It's very hard to get the dynamics where two people can stimulate each other and be happy.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.