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Ryan Giggs (Soccer Player)

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

— Ryan Giggs conversation

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

— Ryan Giggs success

I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.

— Ryan Giggs world

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

— Ryan Giggs good

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

— Ryan Giggs men

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

— Ryan Giggs time

Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.

— Ryan Giggs football

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.

— Ryan Giggs people

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

— Ryan Giggs change

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

— Ryan Giggs care

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.

— Ryan Giggs joy

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

— Ryan Giggs art

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.

— Ryan Giggs money

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

— Ryan Giggs money

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.

— Ryan Giggs love

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

— Ryan Giggs success

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

— Ryan Giggs blood

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

— Ryan Giggs art

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

— Ryan Giggs life

All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.

— Ryan Giggs hope

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.

— Ryan Giggs people

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

— Ryan Giggs success

My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's about making sure I'm right physically because mentally I'm OK.

— Ryan Giggs men

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

— Ryan Giggs war

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

— Ryan Giggs people

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