I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

He is who he is, but it's not enough for me. I want more. I don't want him for just a night. I want him beside me every night.

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Meaning to send a thank-you note but then not doing it is exactly the same as never thinking to send one - that person is still receiving zero thank you notes.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.