I’m really a normal football manager.

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

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

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

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

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

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.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

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.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

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

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

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

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

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

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

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

Football is all about fans.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

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.

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

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

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

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.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

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

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

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

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

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

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

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.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.