Our football program is bigger than any one person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

Every road has an end. Choose the one that worth travelling!

You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.