We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Investors have very short memories

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.