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

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.

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.

Unto those who have, it shall, uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not, it shall, uncannily, be taken away.

Hot, raunchy and funny. —GiveMeBooks

I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read and write. Even if ‘all night long’ is added, I cannot say it – not until I know the focus of all this energy.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.