Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

I've never bought a sports car.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

You're playing dirty, " she whispered. "Did you want me any other way?

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.

Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."