Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.

For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

I don't agree that there's an over-abundance of a lack of quality.

Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold. (on Michael Owen)

Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.

To pluck a flower means to take possession of it, and it also means to kill it.

Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

Packing is my pet hate.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

If you don't have a cause bigger than yourself, you won't get beyond yourself.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.