I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Found out. A nothing player.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.

For my sake, the entire world was created.

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

I'm too full to swallow my pride