At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

No pressure, no diamonds.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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

I’m really a normal football manager.

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.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

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

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Football is unconditional love.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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 saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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 have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

We murdered them 0-0.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?