I think few African countries could do what we have done in such a short time. Only two and a half years ago there were mortars raining down on Monrovia.

There is absolutely no reason this should be a poor country. Ellen has contacts and enormous credibility in the international community. She can make things happen.

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire