Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Found out. A nothing player.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.