“I feel I can still do the same job as I did 10 years ago – I’ve just got a few more wrinkles!”

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.

To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course – but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

Everyone’s been so quick to say that I’m really thick or I haven’t got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

My secret is practice.

It’s is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it – I would love to.

Some people think that I haven’t got the brains to be that clever.

Every situation has changed me as a person.

Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.

It’s hard to find true love in the age of digital sex.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

Never bored, so I’ll never get old.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.