I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

I never make predictions and I never will.

No one is ever going to be as good as I was

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.