At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.

When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the Star Spangled Banner between mouthfuls.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

Life is the soul's nursery.