Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened

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.

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.

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.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

What is it with us?

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.