The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.