I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

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.

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!

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

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

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I’m committed to the fight game.

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

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

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.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

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.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

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

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

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.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

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

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

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

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.