My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

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.

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

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

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 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.‘

Football is unconditional love.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

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

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

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

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

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

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

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

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.

Football is a sad game.

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.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

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.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

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.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

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

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.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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 have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

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.

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.

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.

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

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

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

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

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

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

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

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