When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for herMirrored in us, and so we dreamAnd turn away

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

There was a photo of me with weird sunglasses on and a green sweatshirt, some striped thing, with tights and cowboy boots...I just saw that photo and thought, 'God, I look crazy.'