100 Quotes by Rio Ferdinand

People think we don’t give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake’s belly. The reality is still there.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn’t attract me at all.

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville’s skin: scousers and policemen.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

I’m sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

Our club captain Gary Neville’s been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner’s medal. That’s not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that’s the pressure we put ourselves under.