People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

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

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

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