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

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

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

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

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!

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

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

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

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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

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

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

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

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.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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.

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

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

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

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.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

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

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

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.

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

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

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.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.