When you are doing something that is your passion - you are professional but you enjoy it - playing with fear, training with fear is not something you can do. How can you come with fear and without confidence to your job?

To see professionals working hard every day, making a big commitment to the club with a desire to improve every day is something I want. That's the only way they can play with me.

When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.

I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

For me, the most exciting aspect of my success is how the insights that Ayasdi's technology has found in data can truly impact people's lives.