You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy?

Contentment is worth more than riches.

I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.