I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

I am not Pele or Maradona

Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.

If they had been fit, Kieran Gibbs and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would also have made a difference down the left against United.

He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

John Toshack hates me.

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

I’ve supped on potatoes and groats and am waiting to be sick. How about you?I supped like the Lord in Heaven.’and what does the Lord in Heaven have for supper?’Nothing.

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.