In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle. ]
The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
We like them big. . . but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.
Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport
I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.
People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime. . . respect not fear.
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.
Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.