I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

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.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

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

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

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’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

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.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

My success rate speaks for itself.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

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.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

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.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

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.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

If I do the right things on and off the field that’s how a player is going to learn.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.