Practice is the battle you must win.

Coaches are sales people and change agents.

It's not all rainbows and ponies.

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

One errs as long as one strives.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.