I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

The best of our best, without Jesus, looks like a pile of crap compared to Him.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

a dream is only a memory of the future

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.