Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players. (on Chelsea playing on the road)

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

My mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'

Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

It's your life. What are you going to do about it?

It sounded so weird when people called shoyu "soy sauce." It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.

When it comes to scary business, I believe that forewarned is forearmed.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.