Quotes from Ryan Giggs

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

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.

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.