OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.

Always cherish your true friends who were there when no one else was.

I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

I'm not a trust-fund type.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.