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.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

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.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

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

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

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.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.