Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

I just want to let everyone know I'm not a murderer.

Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart.

I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.