"Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'"

“Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.”

“We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.”

Source : "Faded FA Cup glimmering again" by Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. January 4, 2013.

“Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.”

“Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.”

“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”

“A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.”

“In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.”

“The first 10 000 shots are the worst.”