In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death and to deny one is to deny the other.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you it's much more serious than that.

When the will defies fear when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Death they say acquits us of all obligations.