I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person.

It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.

'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.

'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

If you want bigger arms, target the triceps, not the biceps.

There's no doubt that 'the plank' is one of the best core exercises on the planet.

If you want to build a larger physique that actually makes you look like you lift, you need to train your shoulders, back, triceps, glutes, and legs more frequently. You probably also need to suck it up and train them harder than you ever have before if you want them to grow.

I've been written off more times than some of the government's tax returns but I just keep plodding along.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

I'm obsessed by coffee.

Frittatas are delicious, convenient, and can even be eaten cold - perfect if you're working against the clock to make your morning meeting.

People talk a lot about the Welsh fans but English supporters are also among the world's best.

I've always felt Twickenham has a special aura.

As a rugby player I got into the habit of tackling without thinking. But in MMA you've got to land the right way. You can't flop. You've got to bounce back to your feet. You've got to use your sprawl.

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five but mum lied about my age to get me out of the house.

We owe it to players, young and old, to train them thoroughly so that they can take full advantage of the insights that tech offers them. And what is true in sport also applies more widely to business.

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

The first step to optimising testosterone is eating right. That means cutting out the processed junk food and focusing on high quality proteins, carbs, fats, and an abundance of fruits and vegetables. Don't fall into the 'low fat' eating trap, as this will seriously inhibit your testosterone production.

I can't have cinema popcorn because it's all full of sugar, unfortunately. Well, I do have it and I don't have it. I love movie night and there's lots of healthy brands of popcorn nowadays, so it's good as a snack.

No self-respecting gym goer skips leg day.

We're removal men. It's hard labour. I've come to the conclusion being a forward is probably the worst thing in rugby. Looking at backs, they play kick and laugh, run and clap and we get absolutely flogged.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

The bottom line is that players have to be responsible for getting themselves in the right frame of mind.

It must be very daunting being an individual sportsman.

When I left rugby and bought my first commercial gym membership it was a shock to the system. I went in there and saw people training and thought 'I've got to get out of here and get in a proper gym.'

It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.

Statistically, there have to be more gay men in rugby than we know about and I would hate for them to be going home from training and feeling depressed or feeling like they need to live a lie.

I love deejaying and got the opportunity to do a music production course online and loved it, but I am about as musically talented as a house brick.

There's only one Lawrence Dallaglio and there's only one James Haskell.

Someone once told me I looked like Mr Incredible out of 'The Incredibles.'

I've got a 20 inch neck, a narrow waist and big bulging thighs so stuff off the rack doesn't fit. It's a nightmare to shop for shirts and trousers that are going to fit, because they'll be tight in one place and all baggy everywhere else.