Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

If I was English I'd kill myself

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

A bargain is a bargain.

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

We have a deficit of wonder right now.