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.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

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

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

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.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I idolised IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

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

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.

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

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

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

My first win feels better than a draw!

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

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

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

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.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

There is so much that people take for granted.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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

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.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

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

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

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

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.