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

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.

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.

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

Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.

Your internal thoughts determine your outer world.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.