It doesn't matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That's just the way life is.

Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.

Most of us struggle with the opposite. We don't bring up the negative stakes enough and so the story we're telling falls flat. Remember, if there are no stakes, there is no story.

Heroes need to be challenged by outside forces.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.