I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

If I was English I'd kill myself

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.