Giggs on MUTV:
"It is quite hard now. The squad is so big. When I was trying to get into the first team there were probably 16 or 17 first-team players and sometimes only 14 or 15 would get used in a season.
"But now there are probably 25 - so it's easier to get into the squad. When I was younger, there were only two substitutes and now there are five or six. So it's easier to get in the squad but harder to get into the team.
"The manager always knows how much experience he wants to give a player before pulling him out for a couple of games and putting him back in the Reserves.
"It gives you that little bit of hunger, that feeling of 'I enjoyed that, I want a bit more, so I am going to work harder in training and in the reserve team.'"
"He(Fergie) has had a great influence, probably more so on becoming adults than on our playing careers.
"His door was always open, not just for football but for personal issues as well - he has always been good like that.
"He would always remember your parents' first names, would always come over and chat, and that is something that sticks with you, and something you don't see any more.
"You can have all the good advice in the world, but you have to have a calm head and have your feet firmly on the ground.
"But you also need help. The things I have heard Everton manager David Moyes saying are the right things - he just wants the lad to get on with his football.
"And at that age, 16, you just want to play football. You don't want to do interviews, you don't want to worry about coming off the pitch and wondering what you are going to say.
"You want to play, and train, and then go home and rest, and that is all he has to concentrate on in the next couple of years. It's a great life and if you are dedicated, which I am sure Wayne is, he has great talent.
"You see a lot of players who have talent but don't fulfil their potential.
"You also have to grow a thick skin as well, because, as we have been seeing in the papers they want to know where you live, they want to know who you are friends with, then they want to know your girlfriends and everything about you and that is when it becomes hard.
"When they are talking about your football it's no problem, because that is what you do. It's when they start prying intro your private life that you have to be strong."