I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

You only stop learning when you quit.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

Politics and football don't mix.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.