I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Julius Erving

The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert Heller

Soft data, hard conflicts.

Gerhard Kocher

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Paul Davies

I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

John Dyer

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

E. Stanley Jones

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Lord Chesterfield