"Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do."

"People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place."

"There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity."

"In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight."

"I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid..."

"That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything."

"The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family."

"Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously."

"My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so, of course, I want to stay as "long "as I can."

"Pelé was a complete player. I didn't see him live obviously, because I wasn't born."

"Coaching is not something I'm passionate about. I'm passionate about coaching kids"

"I'm surprised I still have so much hair after all the things I've done with it."

"I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me."

"Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates."

"To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career..."

"I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet."

"I feel I can still do the same job as I did 10 years ago - I've just got a few more wrinkles!"

"I would walk back from the United States to play for England again."

"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."

"I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them."

"It's is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it - I would love to."

"My work ethic is something that I thought would help the team."

"Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school."

"[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me."

"I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me."

"Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know."

"I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends."

"I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time."

"Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?"

"I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake."

"Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise."

"The game is in a neutral country for both teams."

"We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion."

"No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game."

"My new tattoo is Jesus being carried by three cherubs. Obviously the cherubs are my boys. At some point they are going to need to look after me. That's what they're doing in the picture. It means a lot."

"I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing."

"I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made."

"It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!"

"My secret is practice."

"This team [England] has some of the best players in England"

"It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game."

"I still believe I have a part to play for England."

"I'm happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything's good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while to sort out."

"Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun."

"I showed that I wasn't just at Real Madrid to sell shirts."

"Finally, I have lived the dream. I am extremely proud to have worn the armband and been captain of England and for that I will always be grateful."

"There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe."

"I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England."

"I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level."

"I'm a big fan of old boots."