I’m really a normal football manager.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

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

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

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

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

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

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

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

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 just want to do well with the national team.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

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

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

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’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

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

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

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.

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

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

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

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

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

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 am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

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.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

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

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

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

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

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.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

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

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.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

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 don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.