I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

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

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 don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

I’m always hungry to score.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

Football is unconditional love.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

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.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

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.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.