Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.

You can't applaud a referee.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

And being an obsessive man he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had!

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.