We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden.
If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.
When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.
I hope this match never ends. When the match ends, the memories begin.
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs. . . Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.
I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.
I search my brain for the truth. “I want it more than anything, just as long as you promise me one thing. ” “And what’s that?” “That if at any time it gets to be too much for you, you’ll leave me—walk away and get out. ” “That will never happen,” he guarantees me. “You need to give me some credit. You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was like 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music. So to get the chance to do that, to live your dreams or wishes, I just seize it and try and run with it. I never sort of think, oh, the pressure, or it's too much. You're lucky to be doing it. It's a great gift to have, and I appreciate it.
My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.