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.

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

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

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

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

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

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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

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

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

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

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

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.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

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.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

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

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I’m really a normal football manager.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

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.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.