Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine.
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.
Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
