Paul Gascoigne Quotes

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

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

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.

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.

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

I never make predictions and I never will.

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

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

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.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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