"If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself."

"I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach."

"I have a car but it's not important."

"I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career."

"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."

"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."

"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by."

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."