I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

Truth has no path, truth is living and, therefore, changing.

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I?

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.