I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

When infused with compassion, even the most useless snake oils have the power to heal broken hearts and shattered souls.

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.