Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Very few great goals actually go in.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

Footballers are no different from human beings.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

While they proceedTo and fro, andCome and go Like Spring, SummerAutumn and WinterChastise, Criticize And SlanderJesus still remainsA Wonder

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!

I will never be cynical again about people.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.