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

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

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

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

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.

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.

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.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

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.

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.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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.

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

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

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

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.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

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

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

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

I will fight in many weight divisions.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

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

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

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

I’m always hungry to score.

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.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

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.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

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

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’m really a normal football manager.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

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.

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

I’m committed to the fight game.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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.

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

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Cleveland fans are awesome.