Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

There’s only two types of manager. Those who’ve been sacked and those who will be sacked in then future

As one door closes, another one shuts.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.

I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.

If they hadn't scored, we would've won.

Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.

Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.