I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

Football is all I know.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used but they'll remember how you made them feel.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.

I don't regret anything.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting.

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.