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.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

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.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

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

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

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.

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

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

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

I am results-oriented.

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.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

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.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

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

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

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

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 don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

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.

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

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

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

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

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

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

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

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.

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.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

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

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

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!

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

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

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