I think my ideal Christmas would be to hang out with my mates.
Luis Suarez’s always been a great role model for me. His style of play is sometimes like he’s playing with his mates in the street.
Having captained India for long, it is habitual to discuss with my mates and assess the bowling changes, the bowling changes, the field setting that the opposing captain would do.
When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.
There’s a lot of animals in the open ocean – most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that’s where things get really strange.
I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don’t work hard. It’s fine when you’re younger – you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff – but I’m a bit over that now.
I came from playing in a team with my mates to having the chance to play for Real Madrid.
I’m still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that’s the way I prefer to be.
It still feels like I am just playing with my mates a lot of the time. A lot of us in the England team have grown up playing cricket together and formed very close friendships, which makes the dressing room a very enjoyable place to be.
I’ve run out of mates that haven’t had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I’ve been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.
I’ve got such close ties to both… Glasgow with all my family, then Manchester with all my mates that I grew up with. So my heart is definitely in both.
I think I was a pretty ordinary teenager, boring, just played video games with my mates and went to the pub, stuff like that. Just very normal.
Mates are supposed to look after each other, right?
People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.
Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline and work that make them attractive mates.
When I’m sat in the pub with my mates, they’ve got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out… My anecdotes are like, ‘I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn’t hear what she was saying…’
I would love to do skiing and go with my mates and have a chalet, have a drink, have a good time, and just switch off. Or maybe a marathon or something crazy like that.
Truly, I connected with all of my cast mates, which is rare but I think that’s what made ‘Trinkets’ so special.
Sometimes supporting is difficult because a lot of people go to a gig to see the main act and to have a beer and a chat with their mates, so a lot of the time, even if you were John Lennon, would not listen to you.
By the time I was 29 I’d spent eight years with someone else’s group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
I like to go camping with my kids. I’ve got an amazing group of friends. Just like any 30-year-old woman I like to go out dancing, eating food, drinking with my mates, like any normal person.
I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.
I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: ‘political correctness.’
I’d been writing jokes since I was 16, not very good ones though, but I was always trying to make my mates laugh.
Chris Martin’s a good friend of mine. I’m actually Apple’s godfather. He’s an old friend and we’ve been mates for quite a few years now.
Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
Me and my mates are very, very close. We all talk about our problems – especially as we’ve got older. But I don’t think a lot of people have that.
Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don’t make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
I understand the scrutiny; it’s part of the job. And I don’t want to be famous and can’t be mates with the players.
I was great mates with Muttiah Muralitharan, dating back to the days when we both played together at Lancashire.
I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: ‘I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.’
I’m kind of selective of the people that I take photos of. Like, I don’t take pictures of just my friends, but I do like taking pictures of just some of my close mates, especially out in L.A.
I don’t like awards ceremonies. I’d sooner go to the pub with mates I’ve known for years.
I was never ever attracted to any of my rugby mates; I was really good at switching off my emotions and I wouldn’t have even considered crossing that line.
I remember when I worked at the solicitor’s – you’d go in, talk to your mates for a bit and then get down to work. With us the talking to your mates part never stops.
I’ve always known I could play football. I went to Arsenal and West Ham as a kid, but I took a year out because I wanted to play with my mates and get that competitiveness back. I got that fighting spirit and I never want to lose that.
Most gamblers do it for ego. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about challenging your ego and showing your mates you’re fearless and will bet on anything.
I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best mates, discovering the world, discovering who you are.
I work with my brother and best mates, but I wouldn’t give any old plonker a job. With success, I’ve been able to spend more time with family and be financially supportive in a way I never thought I could.
I wasn’t confident at all as a boy and I’m still not now. I’m one of the shyest people you’ll meet. My success at football was down to playing with my brother and his mates in the street.
I think that’s the way we play our best cricket, when we’re aggressive, we’re in the fight together, we’re hunting as a pack as one and we’re working for each other and backing our mates up on the field. That’s part of being an Australian, in my opinion.
I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.
I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.
Everyone knows the feeling where you’re in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It’s awesome, you feel like you rock. That’s what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.
With every side I’ve played for, I’ve always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that’s what’s happened with Les Bleus.
I watched football, but I was a kid who really preferred being out on the street with my mates playing hide and seek!
I didn’t do very well at school – teachers picked on me, I’m sure of it – and I’d stay out all hours of the night with my mates.
My mates send me pictures every single night on the Whatsapp group taking the mick out of me. It’s banter, it is what it is. It doesn’t bother me.
I am not entirely against horse racing. I even had a share in a horse syndicate with a few mates.
All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.
I believe in soul mates, in eternal love. Not eternal marriage.
In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.
If you’re at an award ceremony, you’re against your mates.
It’s weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don’t want to know that you’re beating someone to the role.
When your mates break up with their boyfriends, it’s hard to see, but not all relationships last forever. Let’s be realistic.
I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I’m blessed, but I don’t know what I did to deserve it.
A lot of my mates are actors and it’s lovely to be able to work with friends.
Anyone who’s kicked a ball with their mates and played for their local club knows the buzz of being part of a team, playing without fear or pressure.
