I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.

Always look heavenward in any situation.Trust God to grant you the needed grace and strength to overcome the situation.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

When we do 'Sports Illustrated,' it starts the night before. You do a St. Tropez tan that night, then baby oil gel, then body color.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.