Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros.

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

I've seen some players with very big feet ... and some with very small feet.

The zip on the pitch is very zippy

Sammy Lee is another inbred player

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein... Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.