A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.

As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.

Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve

Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience.

The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.

To live is to suffer

Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.’‘Temper, you mean.’‘No, temperature. It’s getting chilly.

When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.