Welsh Quotes

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

We are muddled into war.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.