"I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times."
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
"I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World."
"I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep."
"If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself."
"That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky."
"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."
"Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own."
"Football is a sad game."
"I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak."
"People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets."
"I was ill, and everyone could see it but me."
"I always wanted more - more of everything."
"I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love."
"Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction."
"You can't trust very many people."
"The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir."
"I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me."
"There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No."
"I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one."
"In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life."
"I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'"
"I have always thought I was the best ever player."
"I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert."
"David Beckham has never impressed me."
