David Beckham People Quotations

People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.

I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player - they thought I was just there to sell shirts.

I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

He is doing what he thinks is best. If that means we play a side or in a way that not many people agree with, then we have got to put that aside, move on and hopefully win the game.

Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.

People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.

In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.

That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.

I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.

I didn't want to go there [America] at 34 years old and for people to say he's only going for the money. It's not what I'm going out there to do

Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

The players and a lot of people in England knew it before this tournament but now Europe is finding out about Wayne Rooney. And we're very lucky to have such a good player in our team.

People don't think I've got the brains to be that clever.

People go on about my foul on Simeone and the red card but I'd obviously rather people talk about me scoring the penalty four years later,

It was deliberate. I am sure some people think that I have not got the brains to be that clever, but I do have the brains.

It's his decision where he will end up and I know that Celtic is the club he supports and people have linked him with there since he left United.

It's disappointing when it happens anywhere in world football because we all know how wrong it is -- and so many people are working so hard to cut it out of the game.

He's the man who brought me to the club and that's why people have turned around this morning and said 'will I be leaving?'. I've got a great relationship with him but I've also got a great relationship with the other board members and directors and players and fans.

If it all ended tomorrow, I would hope that people would write about captaining England 50 times, the 86 caps, winning the European Cup, six Premiership titles, two FA Cups, ... So many goals and games for United. And, hopefully, there is still a trophy with England and Madrid.