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

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.

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.

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

We are all on stage, my dear. Sometimes we forget our lines, but luckily an offstage helper can whisper our lines to us until we get back on track.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points

The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.