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

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

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

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

The respect you give to others dramatically reflects the respect you give to yourself.

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

I seek peace, let me BE peace.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?