We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.

Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.

I want to love my living

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers