Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.

Chris Coleman

The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.

Adam Silvera

Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

Adrian Peterson

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

Al Franken

Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.

Alan Colmes

America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

Anand Giridharadas

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

Andy Weir

It's very expensive to treat your dog, and thankfully, I was able to do that.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

It is rare for an artist to get acceptance by the north as well as the south audiences, and I have thankfully managed that.

Asin

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

Athol Fugard

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Babette March

The American work ethic is, thankfully, still deeply engraved in rural Nebraska souls. This is who we are, and we here in Nebraska have far more to teach Washington, D.C. than Washington, D.C. has to teach us.

Ben Sasse

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

Ben Saunders

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

Beth Hart

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

Billy Graham

Thankfully, I don't think you can be creative without being free.

Bishop Briggs

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.

Brian Stableford

Thankfully I still have things I want to achieve so I can just set more goals. Now I want to unify, I want to have big fights and then one day move up and become a two-weight world champion.

Callum Smith

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Carine Roitfeld

We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

Chanda Kochhar