1) After winning CL in 1999: “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it. Football. Bloody hell.”2) On Mourinho: “He was certainly full of it, calling me boss and big man when we had our post-match drink after the first leg. But it would help if his greetings were accompanied by a decent glass of wine. What he gave me was paint-stripper.”
3) On Wenger (2005): “In the tunnel, Wenger was criticising my players, calling them cheats, so I told him to leave them alone and behave himself. He ran at me with his hands raised saying 'What do you want to do about it?' To not apologise for the behaviour of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologise...he's that type of person.”
4) On winning record 19 PL titles: “My greatest challenge is not what’s happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f***ing perch. And you can print that.”
5) On Giggsy: “I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.”
6) On Gary Neville: “If he was an inch taller, he'd be the best centre half in Britain. His father is 6ft 2in—I'd check the milkman.”
7) On Beckham: “David Beckham is Britain’s finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn’t contemplate.”
8) On himself: “I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.”
9) On Filippo Inzaghi: “Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.”
10) His joke on Italians: “When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. They are the inventors of the smokescreen.”
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