One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.

Regrets? None at all.

Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

I believe divinity is within us.

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

He who wished to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored.

My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

To get rich you have to be making money while youre asleep.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.