Paul Gascoigne quotes:

I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done.

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to love playing with him. You could give him the ball in any position, he would take one touch and you would know exactly what the next move would be. [ . . . ] He was magical, pure class.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

I never make predictions and I never will.

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.

All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

I got eight O-levels at school...zero in every subject.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I'll tell you what my real dream is. I mean my absolute number one dream that will mean I die a happy man if it happens. I want to see a UFO. They're real. I don't care if you look at me like that. UFO's are a definite fact and I've got to see one soon.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

I'm going to do things when they are right for me.

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.

No one is ever going to be as good as I was

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life