I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I don't like being alone.

I don't mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn't a level playing field.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Rich people see every dollar as a "seed" that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn a thousand more dollars.

I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

Power a currency that never went out of style.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

Organizing is just one big game of Tetris.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.