[Legend killer]

To his old buddy Patrick Vieira in the Highbury tunnel

"If you love Senegal so much, why don't you go ****ing play for them?"

On The Gary/Vieira tunnel incident

"Maybe Gary deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then – there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.”

On his tackle on Alf

"I'd waited long enough. I ******* hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don't ever stand over me again sneering about fake injuries. And tell your pal [David] Wetherall there's some for him as well. I didn't wait for Mr Elleray to show the red card. I turned and walked to the dressing room. My attitude is an eye for an eye

On the Prawn Sandwich Brigade

“Away from home our fans are fantastic, I’d call them the hardcore fans. But at home they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t realise what’s going on out on the pitch. I don’t think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell ‘football’, never mind understand it.”

On a Young Rio

"Just because you are paid £120,000-a-week and play well for 20 minutes against Tottenham, you think you are a superstar."

On being punched by Brian Clough

"Cloughie was dead right, absolutely. It was the best thing he ever did for me. It's good to get angry. It's an emotion and part of the game. It's good to go a bit mad but I don't throw teacups around. That's not my style - I'd rather throw punches."

On Mick McCarthy

"Who do you think you are having meetings about me? You were a crap player and you are a crap manager. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are the manager of my country and you're not even Irish you English *******!"