In my heart, I am always a Raider.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

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

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

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.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

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

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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

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.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

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

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

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.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

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

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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

I love being in a courtroom.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.