Geoffrey Boycott

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

I want to act for a really long time, but eventually I want to be a Marine and fly F-18s or train animals at SeaWorld.