When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

In Italy I had an Afro and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Another hero was Tom Swift in the books. What he stood for the freedom the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

When others stood idly by you and your families gave your all in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood as well as the power it can release in an individual.