I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.

I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I would love to have gotten into it with Harley Race. He was such a good wrestler and rough and tough. We wrestled at the same time but never each other. And wrestling Sting would have been something I would have enjoyed.

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

I just want to be the best version of me.

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.

The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard 'Love Me Do' on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.

To fly as fast as thought you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

I see my path but I dont know where it leads. Not knowing where Im going is what inspires me to travel it.

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.