Brian McDermott

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.