The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.