When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

There is no evidence that changing your managers repeatedly leads to success, but there is evidence at Manchester United, I was managing there for 26 years I won 38 trophies.

You can't applaud a referee.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

Paths to other paths must always be open!

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart