If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.