I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.