If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that they become easier. But the tricks I use are the ones that will hopefully benefit the team. What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.
We lost because we didn't win.
I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.
English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.
Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.
I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.
I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.
The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.
I want to see my kids for dinner, I want to put them down at night, I want to see their soccer games after school.
You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.
I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?
They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release,. . . The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field.
