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

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.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

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 you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

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.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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 don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.