We started our careers together and we wanted to finish our careers together. And going to Florida gives us that opportunity.

It would be nice of their manager Tommy Taylor to ring us rather than go to the media, especially when it is a contracted player. Tommy should know better.

We will just be trying to win so that we increase the gap between us and them. I thought Eastbourne bought well in the summer and I don't expect them to be languishing where they are for too long.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets?

It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.