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.
I always wanted to play against the best.
It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.
You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.
Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
In England, your life is your life.
I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.
Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.
Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
Become a legend? But I am already.
Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.
A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
