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.

I am what I am. A fighter.

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

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

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.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I’m an emotional person.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

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

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

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.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.