A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

Playing for England was a massive honour and when I was in the team, that was all I wanted to focus on.

I said I'll need to get my nose straightened one day so that I can breathe properly and that was translated by the press into me having it done.

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

With ski jumping I reached a plateau and the more I did it the worse I got.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

I founded the American Red Cross.

Hush! Take no notice!" - Gandalf

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.