WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

Americans never quit.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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

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

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Acting is happy agony.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

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

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is grace under pressure.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

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

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

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.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.