I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'

Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.

Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players. (on Chelsea playing on the road)

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want to be

It is easy to hate but divine to love.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.