“If you've got someone fighting your corner, someone who loves you and ...” — Michael Ball Quote

“If you've got someone fighting your corner, someone who loves you and you love, and is also really, really clever, the battle is so much easier.”

“The one I really get on with is Princess Anne. Talk about calls a spade a shovel! And she's so clued-up. She's a patron of a number of charities. I've been involved in a couple and she's not just a name. She knows the research programmes that are going on. She really does her homework.”

“I'd always had this hankering to try some opera.”

“I don't know if that's going to disappoint anybody out there, but I was - I have a very rigorous warmup where I get a good sweat going before a match to prepare for battle. That is what people see; that is what people mistake for dirtiness.”

“One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.”

“The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.”