I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

People don't need to be paid to be motivated.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Living in the present is the way to go.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.