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.

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.

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.

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

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

No one has a right to happiness.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.