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.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

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

I just want to do well with the national team.

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 think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

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

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

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.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

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

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

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.

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

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

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.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

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

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

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.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

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

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

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.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

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

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

I don’t want a brat on my team.

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

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.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.