Eddie Irvine quote: "The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now because they're younger, more committed probably than Michael is, ... I'm not saying Michael's not committed, but he's 36. Wheel to wheel, the young guy's going to win, I have no doubt about that."

Okay. I've got three. Which one would you like to speak to first?
EDDIE IRVINE

The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now...
EDDIE IRVINE

Michael isn't getting any slower.
EDDIE IRVINE

Jenson has been beaten by all of them apart from Takuma Sato and Jacques Villeneuve .
EDDIE IRVINE

McLaren have a reliability problem, ... but an aggressive style of driving can also lead to faults.
EDDIE IRVINE

The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael...
EDDIE IRVINE

There's no way Ferrari made a car that bad.
EDDIE IRVINE

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Thing...
EDDIE IRVINE

It's annoying when you're trying to have dinner with your friends, and people come over constantly a...
EDDIE IRVINE

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
JEREMY IRVINE

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first nove...
IRVINE WELSH

We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. W...
IRVINE WELSH

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
IRVINE WELSH

You can't lie to your soul.
IRVINE WELSH

But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for t...
IRVINE WELSH

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
ROBERT IRVINE

Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choo...
IRVINE WELSH

Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small p...
ROBERT IRVINE

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
IRVINE WELSH

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business...
IRVINE WELSH

I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me fin...
IRVINE WELSH

People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or the...
IRVINE WELSH

I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so ...
IRVINE WELSH

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excit...
IRVINE WELSH

It has been well documented that Hugh has withdrawn from the interview process and it will be a stra...
ANDY IRVINE

It will be a straight choice between Frank and Steve,
ANDY IRVINE

In my opinion, Aberdeen would give the team the strongest chance of succeeding.
ANDY IRVINE

It is a big city with a strong rugby following, as we saw in May at Pittodrie,
ANDY IRVINE

It has been well documented that Hugh Campbell, the Glasgow coach, has withdrawn from the interview ...
ANDY IRVINE

Both interviewed extremely well and we will meet again to discuss the next step.
ANDY IRVINE

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the...
ANDY IRVINE

He's (McKie) not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the ...
ANDY IRVINE

Alan will work hand in hand with the new chief executive and they, with assistance from the other di...
ANDY IRVINE

Scotland ended last season on a high and the team were playing with a smile on their faces,
ANDY IRVINE

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...
IRVINE WELSH

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic...
IRVINE WELSH

We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can o...
IRVINE WELSH

Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes,...
IRVINE WELSH

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I ca...
IRVINE WELSH

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fo...
ROBERT IRVINE

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it tha...
IRVINE WELSH

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-...
IRVINE WELSH

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but...
IRVINE WELSH

The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world...
IRVINE WELSH

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
IRVINE WELSH

I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various band...
IRVINE WELSH

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an i...
IRVINE ROBBINS

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. M...
IRVINE WELSH

I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Gene...
IRVINE WELSH

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you ...
IRVINE WELSH

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
IRVINE WELSH

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
IRVINE WELSH

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal F...
ROBERT IRVINE

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or s...
IRVINE WELSH

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather...
IRVINE WELSH

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and ico...
IRVINE WELSH

Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
IRVINE WELSH

We are feeling good about ourselves again.
ALAN IRVINE

I thought Per did really well. He has hardly trained since the Aston Villa game when he was injured.
ALAN IRVINE

We changed our shape and that helped us relieve the pressure.
ALAN IRVINE

I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about th...
IRVINE WELSH

In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' ma...
IRVINE WELSH

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
JEREMY IRVINE

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bu...
IRVINE WELSH

There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so...
IRVINE WELSH

I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Po...
IRVINE WELSH

take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
IRVINE WELSH

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an E...
IRVINE WELSH

There are God's ideals, and then there is common sense.
ANDREW IRVINE

I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went ...
IRVINE WELSH

N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, ...
IRVINE WELSH

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
IRVINE WELSH

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
IRVINE WELSH

There are other noteworthy characteristics of this rock art style: Anthropomorphs without headdresse...
AMY IRVINE

When I explain it to people I tell them the decathlon is like running a marathon. You really can't g...
TROY IRVINE

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...
IRVINE WELSH

I don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are musi...
IRVINE WELSH

I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know...
IRVINE WELSH

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when...
IRVINE WELSH

It was an amazing time. We were students. We went from barely able to pay the rent to betting severa...
DAVID IRVINE

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
IRVINE WELSH

When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousne...
IRVINE WELSH

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid &poun...
IRVINE WELSH

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as suc...
IRVINE WELSH

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-...
JEREMY IRVINE

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot ...
IRVINE WELSH

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are th...
IRVINE WELSH

If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always g...
IRVINE WELSH

I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing...
JEREMY IRVINE

Soldiers became torturers because their chain of command chose to look the other way.
DAVID IRVINE

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...
IRVINE WELSH

adjourn for another beer. We
IRVINE WELSH

É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa histó...
IRVINE WELSH

Como a maioria das pessoa desse mundo, a minha maldade é meio que um a maldade passiva, uma maldade...
IRVINE WELSH

E por aí vão, metidos nessa batalha, testando forças e afirmando um ao outro que não discordam f...
IRVINE WELSH

It’s a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oot fae the insi...
IRVINE WELSH

Ye see, Rab, it’s due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our...
IRVINE WELSH

If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the worl...
IRVINE WELSH

Now I’ll be left alone, and that’s all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone whi...
IRVINE WELSH

it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.
IRVINE WELSH

Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find ...
IRVINE WELSH

He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something li...
IRVINE WELSH

Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but s...
IRVINE WELSH

...we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked ov...
IRVINE WELSH

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
IRVINE WELSH

Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our s...
IRVINE WELSH

I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of th...
IRVINE WELSH

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, you...
IRVINE WELSH

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're j...
IRVINE WELSH

I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of th...
IRVINE WELSH

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.
IRVINE WELSH

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you fin...
IRVINE WELSH

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, ...
IRVINE WELSH

The Hi-Lo as a balanced count is one of the easiest out there. With a more complex count, maybe you ...
DAVID IRVINE

The growth outlook relative to developed markets is still in tact. We believe in the consumer story ...
JOANNE IRVINE

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometim...
IRVINE WELSH

It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
IRVINE WELSH

We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think...
IRVINE WELSH

Clell, Gillman and I are joined by the wee chinky bird with the toff's English-Yank accent. It keeps...
IRVINE WELSH

Le regole son quelle.
IRVINE WELSH

As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
IRVINE WELSH

Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd w...
IRVINE WELSH

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want...
IRVINE WELSH

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...
IRVINE WELSH

That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, ...
IRVINE WELSH

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
IRVINE WELSH

Are you asking me or telling me?
IRVINE WELSH

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...
IRVINE WELSH

How did it make you feel?
IRVINE WELSH

All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it was...
IRVINE WELSH

Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what el...
IRVINE WELSH

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
IRVINE WELSH

Same rules apply.
IRVINE WELSH

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
IRVINE WELSH

If there's anybody who can get a party going it's this guy.
HAZEL IRVINE

Let me fill you in on the other results so far... there are no other results so far, only matches in...
HAZEL IRVINE

Id always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t...
IRVINE WELSH

The Middle East is the area where we're most concerned. There has been a lot of speculation in these...
JOANNE IRVINE

The outlook for global emerging markets is very positive. The fundamentals have never been so strong...
JOANNE IRVINE

Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough
IRVINE WELSH

The switching incident at (University of Virginia) hospital has been confirmed by DNA testing.
MICHAEL IRVINE

Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos...
IRVINE WELSH

Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside...
IRVINE WELSH

ran as hard as I could.
JOHN IRVINE

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to ...
EDDIE HUANG

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president -...
EDDIE VEDDER

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
EDDIE VEDDER

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get...
EDDIE VEDDER

Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
EDDIE TRUNK

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lo...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe...
EDDIE TRUNK

It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
EDDIE VEDDER

As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably m...
EDDIE VEDDER

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
EDDIE VEDDER

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
EDDIE VEDDER

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adr...
EDDIE VEDDER

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amo...
EDDIE VEDDER

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of po...
EDDIE VEDDER

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
EDDIE VEDDER

The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we hav...
EDDIE VEDDER

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive mu...
EDDIE VEDDER

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
EDDIE VEDDER

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
EDDIE VEDDER

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
EDDIE VEDDER

The love received is the love that is saved.
EDDIE VEDDER

Caffeine. The gateway drug.
EDDIE VEDDER

I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
EDDIE TRUNK

I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist...
EDDIE TRUNK

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ...
EDDIE TRUNK

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
EDDIE TRUNK

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik...
EDDIE TRUNK

I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever conside...
EDDIE TRUNK

When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in...
EDDIE TRUNK

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
EDDIE TRUNK

Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
EDDIE TRUNK

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro...
EDDIE TRUNK

One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
EDDIE TRUNK

People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me...
EDDIE TRUNK

I've known Bret Michaels forever.
EDDIE TRUNK

I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, &#...
EDDIE TRUNK

One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo...
EDDIE TRUNK

I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v...
EDDIE TRUNK

The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that...
EDDIE TRUNK

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
EDDIE TRUNK

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the materia...
EDDIE TRUNK

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without que...
EDDIE TRUNK

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ...
EDDIE TRUNK

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always think...
EDDIE TRUNK

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like J...
EDDIE TRUNK

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
EDDIE TRUNK

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that....
EDDIE SLOVIK

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y...
EDDIE SLOVIK

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Army life don't agree with me.
EDDIE SLOVIK

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
EDDIE SLOVIK

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
EDDIE SLOVIK

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK

The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now because they're younger, more committed probably than Michael is, ... I'm not saying Michael's not committed, but he's 36. Wheel to wheel, the young guy's going to win, I have no doubt about that.

Eddie Irvine

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