If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it?

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.