After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

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.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

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

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

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.

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.

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

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

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

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

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

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

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

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.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

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

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

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.

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

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

I’m committed to the fight game.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

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.

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

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.

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

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

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.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.