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All good players need to be appreciated.
Managers live and die by their recruitment.
Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.
At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.
You knew where you stood with Sir Alex Ferguson.
Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.
The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.
Martin Skrtel is good at rattling the opposing centre-forward.
It is very difficult for me to breathe when it's hot and humid.
At United, we like to have wingers who give the team width and pace.
When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.
I played for 20 years for Sir Alex Ferguson, and he could be a scary man.
I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong
I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.
To beat opposing teams, you have to attack, and to attack, you have to take risks.
Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.
At some point, a young player has to grasp the opportunity and make himself undroppable.
I don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.
As a young footballer at United, Steve Bruce was one of the senior pros I really admired.
Peter Schmeichel could make the goal look much smaller when you glanced up to hit a shot.
Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.
I expect positive play from Manchester United all the time, whether you're at home or away.
United are about attacking football, and everything else has to takes its place behind that.
I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.
Playing in attack is difficult. You are under scrutiny, and you have to be able to deal with that.
Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club which I gave my life to as a footballer.
I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.
We know Mourinho can win league titles - he is brilliant at it - but how long can he do it at one club?
When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'
In some ways, I admire the principle of a manager who is determined that his team must play their own game.
I am always loath to assign goalkeepers too much importance, but you have to make an exception for the greats.
To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.
As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.
For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.
A cup final is all about seizing the moment. You cannot put right a mistake or a missed opportunity the following week.
If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.
At United, we never used to change our style much away from home. The aim was always to score goals and dominate the match.
Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.
Things change, although I believe that certain principles - of attacking, entertaining football - should always be protected.
That is the issue with signing young players from other big European football nations - at some point, they will want to go home.
There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.
I like to watch batsmen who will entertain and, as things stand, an opening spell from Jimmy Anderson is about as good as it gets.
The way a top team develops means that once you have won the league title, the natural step is to try to win the Champions League.
I would never do anything to damage United, whoever the owners might be, and I am sure that no United fan would want me to do that.
The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.
There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.
At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.
What I like about Pochettino is the way that he looks in control. He is in control of his players, in control of the way that they play.
United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede chances.
In my world, the dressing room was sacrosanct. The only time anyone was permitted to take pictures in there was when we had won a trophy.