We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle

One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Roman Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

In my view, fitness training isn't that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive edge when just sprinting. The matches are all hard-fought, too.

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

Prayer is the passport to peace.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.