Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

He was magnificent very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty he could see things to set up other people he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.

To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.

The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.