“I still look at myself and want to improve.”

To this day, one of my proudest achievements is captaining my country.

I haven’t retired from international football – I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

One thing will not change – we will be going out to win.

Wayne’s like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.

That was in the past – we’re in the future now.

I didn’t want to go there [America] at 34 years old and for people to say he’s only going for the money. It’s not what I’m going out there to do

I’ve always come back from adversity, and I’ve always had the mentality of proving people wrong.

You will go through tough times, it’s about getting through them.

With United, we’d all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

I’m not silly enough to think I’m going to change the whole culture … but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

Good habits take effort to develop, but once you have them, everything is easy.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

You ask what I’ve been doing all this time as if surviving wasn’t much of an effort.

You have to put in the effort and go above and beyond everything you know. ⁣

Life gets better, not by chance but by consistent efforts from the individual end.

I like it when you make an effort to look better but I love you even when you don’t.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Learn to live between effort and surrender. Do your best and hope for what you want, but do not resist the direction of the wind.⁠