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.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.