If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.