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

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

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

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 hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

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.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

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

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

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

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.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

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

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

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

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

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

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

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

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.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

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

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

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

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.

Football is unconditional love.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

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

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

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

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

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

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

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

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

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.

Football is all about fans.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

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

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.