As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.
Virat KohliNobody’s indispensable.
John KennedyThe way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe RuthSectional 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.
John SteinbeckThe 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.
Sunil ChhetriI don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard M. NixonNothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.
Tom BradyScience is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Leonardo da VinciMy wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
Matthew McConaugheyJoe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.
Muhammad AliOnce you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.
LeBron JamesIn England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
Jurgen KloppThe most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
Kanye WestPop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie RobinsonWhere would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Bob UeckerLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI 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!
Bruno MarsMen like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.
Jerry SeinfeldTeamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
John C. MaxwellI 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.
LeBron JamesBaseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Jackie RobinsonGolf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark TwainThere is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
Jurgen KloppLot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.
Sunil ChhetriI treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LeBron JamesThe only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy GrahamI’m really a normal football manager.
Jurgen KloppBut I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
David BowieI can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.
Michelle ObamaTalking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.
Sunil ChhetriI was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.
Dwayne JohnsonThe first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
LeBron JamesWe should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.
Jurgen KloppA leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao TzuWithout sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.
Sunil ChhetriIn India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.
Sunil ChhetriI love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.
Virat KohliI’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.
DrakeHackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.
Mark ZuckerbergWIth 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.
Tom BradyI used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Lou HoltzIf you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.
Brian EnoAs Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!
Jurgen KloppAs the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
PlatoThere’s many ups and downs in the fight game.
Conor McGregorWhat we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.
Sunil ChhetriIn Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.
Jurgen KloppI played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny YoungmanWe don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.
Jurgen KloppBut sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
LeBron JamesThe amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.
Mark ZuckerbergI had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.
Stephen CurryMy grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
Dwayne JohnsonI have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.
George BestPlaying basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.
Stephen CurryI hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.
Bob UeckerI 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.
Madeleine AlbrightIt’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.
Tom BradySynergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.
Stephen CoveyBehind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx