At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‚Oh, there’s the ground.‘ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle – the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

War settles nothing.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.