I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

Great is the love of God.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.