"I took the job at United fully expecting to be walking around after the last home game of the season either challenging for a league title or parading a league title because that's what this club demands."
"I want to be part of Man United's future. I'm a Man United person."
"Me going out 25 minutes early onto the training ground to practise wasn't me being teacher's pet. That is what I have done throughout my career."
"I wanted success. I was ambitious. I didn't leave United to see out my career picking up wages."
"If Jose Mourinho came to Man United, you would think, with his track record, that in maybe three seasons he would be gone. Man United are looking at the next 20 years. They've just given David Moyes a six-year contract. It is that kind of club."
"The pressure will always be there at United, and David Moyes will have to win games and win trophies. He will do that."
"I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more."
"There is this preconceived idea that I would follow the likes of Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher, and Gary into the media because it's a really good life. But football is my life."
"When you talk about the ambition to get more girls to play at a younger age, they are inspired by watching Toni Duggan and Steph Houghton playing, either live or by watching it on television."
"Before I retired, I had agreed to join the BBC to work as a pundit, with my contract beginning at the start of the 2014/15 season."
"Towards the end of my career, I was thinking about going into the media world. It's crucial: with three to four years left in the game, you begin to plan for the end."
"I've always had a good relationship with the BBC, and I'd enjoyed the freedom that goes hand in hand with punditry, so it was ideal for me."
"Punditry has taken me across the world, it is wonderful to have interaction with new people, and it's a very small world now. I've worked for companies in the Middle East, America, and Europe."
"When it came to Sociedad, I didn't want to come back into football so soon after the Manchester United experience."
"I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway."
"My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players."
"I came out with a few plaudits, and I don't really enjoy that because I am a team player. I don't shout about myself, and I've always been team-orientated, so maybe that is why I have always slipped under the radar throughout my career."
"From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It's something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don't want to let myself down."
"A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football."
