Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.