In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.

I always say the biggest opponent for Manchester United is Manchester United. Every year I play for this club, I will say the same.

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.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

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 teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.

You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

I generally don't like it when people talk about regrets because you do your best, and you deal with the circumstances that happen.

I have spent much of my youth on artificial pitches. The body can feel a little heavier, but the ball is there quicker and cleaner.

When we're up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don't sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in - I expect that I and my team will be smart.

Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.

I'm not going to change my name unless I know that the public are behind England and show that they want me to become Chris Cabanga.

You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

I have had my eyes opened to a different side to me. I'm a much happier person. There was always this Jekyll and Hyde thing with me.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

While I could still play in the Premier League, I really did not want to go abroad. I was not thinking about winding down my career.

People make relegation out to be a fate worse than death but that's nonsense. If the infrastructure is right, clubs can bounce back.

Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.

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.

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

There are many penalties which referees don't see. Sometimes they are right, and many other times, they are wrong. That is football.

There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

Manchester City is the richest club in the world. They work to a budget that no one else works to, so they can write their own rules.

Every time I hear that Champions League song, it reminds me of hearing it for the first time in the old Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

I didn't find it hard to settle at United because there was a great bunch of players, great staff, and a good atmosphere at the club.

I feel great, and I'll happily continue to be at Vicente del Bosque's disposal, because defending my country is very important to me.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

I've won fair-play prizes, but that's just my nature, my character. This is who I am, and I do not feel the need to hide the real me.

I think the French teams sometimes doubt themselves. They play some beautiful games but, when it comes down to it, do not go through.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.

Neuer is the world's No.1 keeper and can be used as a role model for all young keepers. He has everything a goalkeeper needs to have.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

I have said from day one I see myself as a center back. But, if I am asked to play in midfield or at right-back, I am happy to do so.

If you play in France, Spain or Italy it is not the same football, especially when you play in England. Every game is very difficult.

It can't be too bad being one of the top goalscorers at Arsenal in the Premier League, mainly as a winger as well, and three FA Cups.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Would I - or any defender - tell the referee to give a penalty if I made a foul in the box but it was deemed a fair tackle? No chance.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player

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