Playing for England was a massive honour and when I was in the team, that was all I wanted to focus on.

I said I'll need to get my nose straightened one day so that I can breathe properly and that was translated by the press into me having it done.

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.

If you want to judge me, I can handle it.

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.