Brendan Quotes

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket.

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

I usually call the new guy and let him know where I like to sit on the bus, tell him ways he can stay out of my way, make sure he knows not to touch any of my stuff.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

I am a daylight atheist.

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

No man can discover his own talents.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

The best players want to play in the best competition.