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.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

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

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

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

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

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

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Football is unconditional love.

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.

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

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Football is all about fans.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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.

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

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

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

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

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

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

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

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

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.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

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.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

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.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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.

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.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

WIth 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.

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

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‚Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.‘ He said, ‚Yes, but not in a row.‘

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

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.

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

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

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 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.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.