Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

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.

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 think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

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.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Football is all about fans.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

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

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

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 was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

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.

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.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

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

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

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.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

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.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.