I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

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.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.