"I've never enjoyed doing interviews. I always run out of the back door of the training ground to avoid the press. I jump into my car and drive off, leaving it to the others."

"I was very sorry to see Glenn Hoddle resign as England manager... He was brilliant for me, always very supportive in public and private. I would never say a bad word about him."

"The aim for any of us at United is to become like a Keane or a Stam and play most weeks."

"I know people are saying I can be the new Gazza. It's a compliment and I am fattered, but I really do try and put it out of my mind. I am not like Gazza at all off the pitch. I am quiet, I relax at home, play golf and that's it."

"I've got a boot deal but that's it. I don't really want anything else, I'm not interested in it, I let other people get on with that. I'll go to hospitals and visit sick kids and do the odd presentation but that's all. The only thing I want to do is play football and be successful, nothing else."

"Paul was such a small boy. He always got singled out for rough treatment. Boys would queue up to kick him, but he was a sturdy little fellow. Most of the time he saw it coming and got out of the way. If he did get kicked he just walked away. There were never any tantrums."
John Duncan, Scholes' Headmaster at Cardinal Langley School