If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though

The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.