Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

As a goalkeeper, you can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.

Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting.

Consistency is a huge thing at the top. It's hard to get to a good level, but once you get to a certain level, there's people who want your place.

Every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.

The best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.

I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.

Sometimes the smartest decision is the last one you want to make.

In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.