- I've been sat there staring at Boris Becker, one of my heroes, for half the evening" - winning the BBC Sports Personality Award 2003
- It's been an amazing week and a half, but I'm missing the team environment" - receiving his MBE Insignia
- The longest kick he's ever done - "I had one in Newcastle five or six yards behind halfway against the breeze, which was a good one for me. But I suppose my longest international one was against Australia in November, two or three yards behind halfway."
- When I'm practising my mind actually tries to put me off by telling me to look at some guy who's walking his dog behind the pitch. Just as I am trying to kick, my mind is sort of trying to put me off! I think I might have a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde character trait.
- "Playing up in Newcastle you quickly gauge the importance of sport. And certainly in England it's clear that football is so important. There's no doubt that the guy's got to have something special to get through all that intrusion to perform every week like that, so I'm more than happy to be labelled with that tag." - on being called 'The Michael Owen of Rugby'
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