I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

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.

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.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

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.

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

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.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

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.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

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

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture. It’s an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

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

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

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

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

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

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

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

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

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

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

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

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.

I never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

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

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

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

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.