In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

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

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

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

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

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

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.

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.

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

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 try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

We murdered them 0-0.

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.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

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.

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.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

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.

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.

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

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

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.

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.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

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.

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.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

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

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

Football is a sad game.