Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays… We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more? – Ryan Giggs
Celebrity culture, its everywhere, isnt it? Its reality TV, Big Brother. I didnt become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didnt want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? – Ryan Giggs
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. – Ryan Giggs
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death