My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.

I am a very hopeful person.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.