This year we'll be fighting for every pound.

It looks like some of our competitors are going to get a bit stronger and you've got a background where the consumer is a little bit weaker. Together with cost pressures on things like energy, that means it's going to be a challenging year.

We had two very strong Christmases before this, so to hang on to the gains and push on again ... is very pleasing.

I just had to keep my head clear and make sure never to stop fighting, to go all six minutes. I knew I was better conditioned than he was.

Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching us go at it,

I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field, you will rue the day you ever set foot in the Plains. For every inch you advance I'll exact gallons of Mukthar blood. I guarantee that there will be not one family of the Bear Mukthars or they will mourn at least one of theirs. I guarantee that even if you are triumphant the fruits of victory will taste like dust in your mouth. I guarantee that if you fail to kill me today, you will meet me again. You will meet me at the Ximerionian border. You will meet me at every city, town, village, and hamlet. You will meet me on every Amirathan crossroad, on every hill. I will fight you with every sword at my command, with every arrow, with every dagger. I will fight you with pitchforks. I will fight you with the very rocks of the land you try to conquer. I will never, never, never give up.

~Anaxantis, before the Battle of the Zinchara (May 29th, 1453 aed)