My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

I don't choose my friends based on how they treat each other, I choose them based on how they treat me.