I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Arsenal's defence will be a worry going forward

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.