I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.

Never get high on your own supply.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.