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

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 was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

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

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

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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 heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

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

My first win feels better than a draw!

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

When I’m up there, and I know the show’s coming to a close, in my head I’m saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That’s what I don’t like so much.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. 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.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

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

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

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

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

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.