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

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.

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

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors