Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

Fernando Torres needs to be loved on a regular basis.

Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

He reminds me of a completely different version of Robbie Earle.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that.

You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it but there's a complete mix of 80s rubbish and current day stuff.

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

When knowledge and education reach you, you have an whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.