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

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.

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 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.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that you would never do anything.

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.'

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.