Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.