Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.
David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them
Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.
If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference!
Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.
We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school.
If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.
I don't feel anything right now. I am just preparing, that's it.
I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board.
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.