I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

You only stop learning when you quit.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

Politics and football don't mix.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

I had both male and female heroes.