No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth.

Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it seem to find me?

There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself.

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.