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

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

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

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

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.

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

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

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

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

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

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

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.

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.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

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.

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

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

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

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 failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

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

I will fight in many weight divisions.

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

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.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

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

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.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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

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.

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

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

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.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

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