As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.

The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.