I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

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.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

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

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Computers double their performance every month.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.