I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.

I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again and there are 'go-to' songwriters that people choose.

America will never move forward if you decide to leave a nation of people behind.