I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

I prefer cash but so many places only take cards these days, it forces you down a line and I don't like that.

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.

I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

Be selfless to find yourself.

Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you.

❤ doesn't wait to be told there's a need, it sees. ❤ never justifies a wrong, it repents. ❤ cannot retire, it has much to much work to do.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

Not Today is definitely a movie that you have to see.

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions