Fred also previously received two honorary doctorates ..... They were both given by the relevant engineering faculties, but Fred always told people that they were for 'back street mechanicing'.

'That's Bolton's biggest chimney that... and I climbed it for a ten bob wager. Never did get the ten bob though.'

'I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.'

'Them fancy London types don't know the pleasure of eating chips with fingers'

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educat…

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker…

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.