I have always been confident that I would make it to the top.

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

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

Life is an amazing wonder.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.