I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs.

I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

He was a huge football man - he loved football. He was a good parent, a great father, and brilliant with me.

I think everybody is under the impression that everyone wants to work in the Premier League. I want to work at the top level like everyone else, but it doesn't mean that's the Premier League.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

I don't regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.

Living for football has saturated me.

I'm a bit tired of so much football, so much football. I want to enjoy my family a bit. I'm very keen to stop and get a bit of calm.

The golf bag hurts my shoulder too much; I prefer to play football.

The history of Juventus have always been a bit like this: they do well in Serie A and struggle in Europe.

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. I would like to state that I have great respect for the club, its supporters, and the owner, Sheikh Mansour, who has been nothing other than respectful to me.

Money has never been important. Having a coach who wants me and who wants to play me, having a good fanbase and an environment in which I am happy - these are the important things to me.

The first thing United's fans have to understand is that a part of my heart will always be with them. They were very supportive, and they always made me feel good even when I wasn't playing, so I will always keep that in my heart. The second point is that the reason I did not stay at United was nothing to do with the fans.

Everything I do, I do for my daughters.

Living without my children in Manchester has been incredibly challenging for me.

What one does in one's club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.

I train with a serious attitude, and when I am having time off, I hope to be respected as well.

To play at home, sometimes it goes against you in a Libertadores final.

To play a match between Boca and River in Madrid, it's weird. But as a player, it is important to stay focused on the match.