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.

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

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds 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 Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

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.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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 noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

People want you to fail.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

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.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

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.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.