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

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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!

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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

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

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.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

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.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

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.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

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

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.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.