Ryan Giggs
Ryan Giggs
Ryan Joseph Giggs, OBE is a Welsh football coach and former player who is the co-owner of Salford City. He played his entire professional career for Manchester United. The son of rugby league player Danny Wilson, Giggs was born in Cardiff but moved to Manchester at the age of six when his father joined Swinton RLFC...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth29 November 1973
became famous following footballer people
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.
families happened jobs looking money people
It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
nice play people
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.
dad player people
Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.
father people black
A lot of people don't know that my father is black
nice nicer rivalry teams
The rivalry between the two teams is massive, so it's always nice to play them and even nicer to win.
england luck producing
England got the luck this time, but if we keep producing performances like that it'll come our way,
knew perform
We didn't perform in the first half. They had the better of the first half. We knew we would improve, and that's what we did.
bringing main players ranks
Bringing young players through the ranks has always been one of the manager's main priorities,
both dreamt ten
Ten years ago we probably wouldn't have dreamt of this, both of us,
devil roy
Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate. He's evil. Even in training.
footballer full playing wants
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.
confidence difficult far game good hopefully kick run winning
We have to kick on now. Fulham will be a difficult game ... but hopefully we now have the confidence to go on and get a good result. It is important to go on a winning run because we do not want to get too far behind.
beat best liverpool nice rivalry teams
Liverpool are one of the best teams in the world, and the rivalry is massive. It's nice to play them, and even better to beat them.