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

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.

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.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

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