I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

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

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

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.

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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.

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

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.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. 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.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

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.

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

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

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

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I’m really a normal football manager.

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.

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

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

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

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

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.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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.

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

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

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.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

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

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

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

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

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