He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

I didn't say them things that I said.

You can never compare two players that are different, they're never going to be the same.

Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him

Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)

The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body’s sexuality

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.