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

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ‚em up myself.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

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.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

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.

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.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

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.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

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.