It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

I was adored once too.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

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 think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.

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

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

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

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

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

My life is mine to remember.

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.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

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.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

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

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

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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