I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know theyre different countries.

Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Respect me, or put me to death.

I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.