To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

I idolised IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.