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.

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.

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.

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.

Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.

Some people will try to condemn you to the prison of their bullshit. They tell you they want a soulmate, but they're actually creating a cellmate.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.