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

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.

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.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

When you do things with love, it is a song of your heart.

Water will be more important than oil this century

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

Your power comes from the songs.

Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.