I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Everyone has that turning point in their life, whether you are going to make it or not it will come into your life nevertheless.

The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.