When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

Every new day is a sacred gift with new sacred grace.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.

When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.