What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

Just as we know when we strike a metaphorical nerve with someone, we also know when we tap into what inspires them.

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.