Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Found out. A nothing player.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.

We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Every single day, I get up and I say, I am going to live and not die.

What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.