If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see whats going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.

Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.

The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

False friends are like our shadow keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."

I don't want to look like a bum.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.