"I'm just a geeky, goofy person."

“If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.”

“There's no wrong time to make the right decision.”

“I love scoring - even in training.”

Source : "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes "great feeling" of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”

“We don't have a hundred years to fix climate change. We don't have a hundred years to wait until we've built all these bridges and rapport and scientific understanding and so on and so forth. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”