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

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

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.

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.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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.

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

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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.

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

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

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

I just want to do well with the national team.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

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

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!

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.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

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

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

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.

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

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

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

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

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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 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.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

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

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

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

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn’t possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

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.

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

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.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.