Gary Lineker

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.