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

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.

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

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

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

When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration.

Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.

I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. 

(on Manchester City).

You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

If they lose faith in your knowledge, they lose faith in you. That grasp of the facts must be kept at a high level, for all time. You have to be accurate in what you say to the players.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like -- sometimes they don't come home.

I don't like admitting, we were beaten by a great team, because we never wanted to say those words. The biggest concession we ever wanted to make was: two great teams contested this final, but we just missed out. Our aim was to attain that level where people said we were always on a par with Europe's best.

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses -- I own two and have shares in four.

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

The supporters were entitled to know when I was unhappy with a performance. But not an individual.