Ajax always bring through young players from their academy - we can't pay €20m for a player, so we make sure we develop those players and give them the opportunity to play.

It's hard to put your faith in youngsters, but Ajax have always done that.

When I was 18, I never expected to be what I was - you hope to make your debut, to play for the national team, and I want to achieve something similar off the pitch to what I did on the pitch.

For everyone, the World Cup is important. It doesn't matter if you are 21, going for your first one, or 35 and going for your third one. It's the biggest stage you can play on, and every opportunity to experience it is something special.

The most time players get off is during the international breaks.

I know I'm a good goalkeeper.

I'm always quite rational.

When I was younger, I thought I would finish in my mid-30s because that is normal for most players.

Coming to Old Trafford gave me a new lease of life.

When I left Ajax in 1999, I travelled to Liverpool and spoke to Houllier. I was shown around Anfield and also met with the chairman and a couple of the players. I thought about it, but when Juventus came to the table, I came to the conclusion that it would be a bigger challenge to play in Italy.

Being at Manchester United is a great way to play at the highest level and win trophies with a team that is very closely knitted together.

It's always hard the moment you decide to stop playing. It doesn't matter if you're at a small club or a big club: it's the end of your playing career, so that's always going to be a big moment for any player.

You get confidence when you get on a roll. When you are not struggling, and you get your players back, it is bound to make everyone feel better about themselves.

It doesn't matter whether it is your first game or your last game: you want to win.

As a goalkeeper, you always expect every team to give you nightmares.

I didn't find it hard to settle at United because there was a great bunch of players, great staff, and a good atmosphere at the club.

I don't hate the idea of retirement. I am looking forward to it.

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.

I want to finish at the top, playing well.

I will miss football.

Jean Tigana wants to go to the top with Fulham, and I like that ambition.

At Ajax, Juventus, and with Holland, I have played with top teams, and now I want to use my experience to reach the same goal with Fulham.

I am delighted to have signed for Manchester United, one of the most famous clubs in the world.

I would like Ajax to be people's favourite second team. Like in Spain, if you are a Real Madrid fan, then you can't be a Barcelona supporter. It's the same in Italy. But you can be an Ajax fan.

I think, on one end, we need to understand that goalkeeping is an art and is also a very important position to have in your club.

They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.

I don't think that the Iranians, even if they got the bomb, they're going to drop it immediately on some neighbor. They fully understand what might follow. They're radical, but not total mishuginas.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.

I think that Jordan is strong. I think that they will hold on. I believe that they've already opened their parliament and their system, the press and others, to many voices... And I hope and wish that they will remain stable for a long time.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

An independent, strong, thriving and peaceful State of Israel is the vengeance of the dead.

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising.

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.

Israel will continue to act proactively to prevent the transfer of heavy missiles or advanced air defense systems from Syria to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which, of course, carries the risk of a military showdown.

Either we destroy world terror or world terror will destroy us.

Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not emulate; the example leads only to empty gestures and developmental stagnation, both of which the Arab nations have had enough of already.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.