I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.
I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.
When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.
After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
I went from someone who really wanted to perform from a really young age - that was all I knew - to going on 'X-Factor', which I thought was going to be the most incredible experience ever and it becoming the worst experience of my life.
I have had some dark times, it was a frustrating 2019. I was pushing for the Terence Crawford fight but, through no fault of my own, I did not get any of the big fights I wanted.
Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.
I really didn't have aspirations. I was just tall.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.
My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.
Off-seasons hurt when you lose the last game.
I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
I don't watch 'The X Factor' any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing - it's all they've ever dreamed about - then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous - it doesn't matter how.
I've succeeded at everything except my life.
