It was difficult in the beginning, in the middle and at the end.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

You live and die by results, I asked to be judged on that and people have.

We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often

Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team.

He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.

In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.

I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it

He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game. (on David Beckham)

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.