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

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.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.