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.

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

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

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

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

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

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.

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.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

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

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.

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 am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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 coaches don’t have real problems.

We murdered them 0-0.

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.

In 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.

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

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

I idolised IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

Football is all about fans.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

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.

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

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

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.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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

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.

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

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 don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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

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

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

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

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

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

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.

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.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

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.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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

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

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

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

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.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

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.