It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used but they'll remember how you made them feel.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

Football is all I know.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.

I don't regret anything.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Beyond the edge of universe, there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

The future is in your hands, the outcome is up to you.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur