When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

You were born to shine

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

The greater the responsibility, the greater the reward.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.