The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though

If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.

Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.