You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.

Regardless if your career is short or long, I personally would rather win more often than not.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

Our pets are a part of our family.

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.