Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Dear family, I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men - it fixes everything

[On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.