The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

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

Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap!

The corrupt begat corruption.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.