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

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

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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.

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.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

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

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

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.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

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

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.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

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 do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

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

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

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

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.

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

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.