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

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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

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

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

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

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

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

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

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.

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.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

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

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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

Football is all about fans.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

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

I’m really a normal football manager.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

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.

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

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

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

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

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.

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!

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

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

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

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.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

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

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

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

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

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

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.

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

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

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