Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.
You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.
I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.