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

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

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

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

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

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

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.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

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 always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

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.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

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.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.