Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Very few great goals actually go in.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

Footballers are no different from human beings.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Those who possess nothing and yet enjoy everything have no fear of losing anything.

Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.

Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

The way is an ill neighbour.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.