Gary Neville Quotations

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

We were devastated last week because of what happened to Alan. He can't be here today but this victory is for him.

We've taken a lot of criticism recently, and rightly so - - there are a lot of expectations at this club. Hopefully this is the start of something special for us.

We need to become more ruthless and clinical in front of goal.

Ole will receive the most incredible reception that any player has ever had in the history of this club.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful manager Manchester United have ever had. It is ridiculous for people to suggest he leaves. Who do they want to replace him? Ron Atkinson, Tommy Docherty?

Obviously it's a great honor. But the one thing that doesn't change, no matter how many years you have on the contract, if you don't perform, you will be out. That is the main thing on my mind.

I don't think it is right for us at Manchester United to be talking about winning the European Cup. Over the last few years we have slipped a noose round our own necks by consistently saying we have to win the Champions League because we have not won it since 1999. What we should be doing is concentrating on the Premiership.

He won't give me one single second's rest for 90 minutes,

He's a fantastic player but I've played against him in training every day this season.

He'll always be one of the legends of Manchester United,

I think the Carling Cup is a big moment for us.

I think he's a special talent. I thought there were glimpses of brilliance before Christmas but after that he has shown everyone at United that he's going to be a world-class player.

My brother always celebrates like that when we beat Liverpool. It means a lot to him and I think people should just let it go.

We get too carried away by shouts from the crowd. What do you expect?

We know over the next few days people will criticize us and rightly so because our performances haven't been up to our standards. There will be a lot of disappointment for the next few days but we are training on Friday and Saturday mornings and Sunday's game is a great chance to put it right because the fans will want us to put a show on for them.

Though England would have to avoid playing between February and May, clearly. Only joking. I mean, it's not going to be him, though, is it? Are we live? Oh crap.

The players do not have to lift themselves, they know their responsibilities. I am sure we will hear a lot over the next few days about how we are not going to be playing European football after Christmas. There will be a circus but we have to remove ourselves from that.

We need to get our house in order and then we can talk about winning the league again.

We had to guard against complacency and try to take the chances we created, but in the second half they played better.

To have played at this club for so long and get to 500 matches is something I never would have dreamed of.

We should have been three or four up at half time.

I've not got a definite team in my mind with all that is happening here at the moment,

Coley deserves a great reception. The United fans will respect a great player for this club who scored a bagful of goals. There's bound to be a bit of banter, but Coley played in the European Cup final and the fans won't forget that.

This is the real thing, this is no show pony,

All our thoughts are with Alan - we've had a bad day all round.

All our thoughts are with Alan and it has been a very bad day all round. The reaction of the crowd is part of football, you just have to accept it.

It's the best way to win a football match because there's no comeback from it.

It was a good day obviously because we won as well.

They are not the type of results that will take us towards the top of the league,

I hope we're going to have him back soon,

We need to become more ruthless and critical in front of goal.

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day we've got to be ruthless and we are in the business of winning for us. If they had scored three or four, nobody would have said do you feel sorry for Mark Bosnich? We don't feel sorry for Craig Forrest.

He went in with his shuds stowing.

The trouble with the transfer window is it creates a window where transfers have to be done

If you don't like someone, don't shake their hand.

They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

And I know what confidence medals can bring.

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

The best illustration I can give of his talent is that at Manchester United there was always a possession drill in training designed to develop our passing ability, which might be three players against another three players, or six versus six, or nine versus nine. But no matter what the numbers were, the side with Paul Scholes on their team would always win by keeping the most possession.

Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."

There are only four trophies available to win at the start of every season and there will be some big teams this year who won't win one at all.

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

While we're living the dreams we have as children fade away'. Not if you support United!

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

As football gets more globalized, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.

If Real Madrid land on Manchester airport, then the airport will be surely flooded just to see one player whom fans want most. Everyone knows the name, I don't need to tell it. He is the Prince and legend of Manchester,The King and legend of Real(Madrid). 'CRISTIANO RONALDO'

The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

We don't give in and we don't stop. We are relentless and in the end we usually get to where we want to be.

The last two years have proved what can happen with good coaching, a bit of luck and the correct performances on the right night,