"People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could."

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Source : Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2011.

Ian Rush

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“My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.”
“The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.”

Source : The Importance of Living ch. 9 (1938)
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”
“There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”
“I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.”
“The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair”
“No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.”
“In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.”

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