It's nice when you can enjoy yourself and make people smile.

The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.

As for my personal ambitions, I always loved playing for England and always felt I did well.

I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score.

I do a fantastic job for a living: I get to play in front of 90,000, and obviously, everyone knows your name and what have you. But I'm no better than anyone else.

I've always felt that, when I play, I have never let anybody down.

I am very proud of my goal record for England.

I don't know why, but playing for England, I always feel I am going to score.

Never give up, and always believe you can achieve something.

I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.

There is one thing that I would really enjoy, and that is, of course, to get 100 Premier League goals.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to score volleys.

I've always felt comfortable on the ball, and I don't know why people are so surprised when you can control it well. It's not a disability. It's just that I'm a bit taller than everyone else.

I'd hate to be the sort of player who people just regard as being tall and only good for winning headers.

It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.

I've never been renowned for electric pace. It doesn't seem to have held me back.

I thrive on quick players getting to the byline and sending over crosses. I just have to be quick enough to get on the end of things. In that regard, my job has always been the same, but if we have more wide, quick players, that can only be good for me.

At first, I was overwhelmed at moving up to international level, but the England lads are top class at making you feel welcome.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

In my opinion, whenever I've been given the opportunity to play, I've done well and scored goals, and that will continue to be the case.

The death of Cyrille Regis, a giant in so many ways, was such a shock and deeply upsetting.

When I started out, nobody told you how to do an interview. That's how I ended up on the front page of a newspaper dressed as Rodney Trotter with a Reliant Robin.

I came from a good family and a nice area, but I went to a rough state school.

It was only when I got to Tottenham as a youth player that they said, 'You need to be good in the air.' It was made clear I was going be a target man, so I had to start working on my technique.

Heading is a skill, and it would be a shame to lose that from the game. There is nothing more dramatic than when you see someone score a diving header, for instance.

There shouldn't be a stigma about age with footballers.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.