When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves.

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.