My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Nobody’s indispensable.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?