Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

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.

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.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

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

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.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

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.

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

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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

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

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

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

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

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

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

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

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

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

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.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.