100 Quotes by Rio Ferdinand

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

I thought I would be at United for a couple of years, maybe three or four, and then go abroad somewhere. But I just fell in love with Manchester United. I fell in love with winning, fell in love with the history of the club and being part of it was something I could never have imagined.

His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays.It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.

I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne

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

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)