You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.