Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.