I played my last game of football when I was about 17 when I ended up in hospital, because I went in a little harder on a challenge than I should have, not realising one of the players was so close to me. I could have easily broken his leg. He jumped out of the way and his knees went into my head and knocked me out.
More Quotes by Chris McCausland
I am a self-confessed rock fan and metal head, but I love good music, and 40 years on the Pet Shop Boys still have it.
I've been a stand-up now for over two decades and I am lucky enough to enjoy the privilege of being able to tour and fill theatres.
Stand-up doesn't terrify me or even make me nervous beyond some pre-show restless excitement.
I love stand-up, but it has become so normal and natural to me that the buzz comes from the adrenaline of a great show rather than from the fear or nerves of doing something new and unknown.
Strictly,' I thought, could actually be the best thing that I've ever done - possibly, maybe, well either that or three weeks that I'll never live down.
I want to fit into the electric atmosphere of a live 'Strictly' show and for the crowd to be entertained and not to have the atmosphere flattened to accommodate me. I would rather go out in week two having disastrously immersed myself in the show's noisy energy than get through to week 10 in silence.