"That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything."

"I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid..."

"In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight."

"There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity."

"People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place."

"Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do."

"I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible."

"...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men."

"..If we killed women for their tongues all men would be murderers."

"I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people."

"Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered."

"The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection."

"... the inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy."

"Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms."

"My afternoon had spoilt me for the hours that still remained,"

"Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must be served for her dissection."

"It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil."

"Do you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing? If so, you're much mistaken."

"I did so obediently, and waited for her approval."

"But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness."

"The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache, like the tiredness after too much jumping or cricket."

"Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand."

"....but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence."

"...I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before."