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.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

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 want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

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

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

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.

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

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

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.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

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

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

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

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Knowledge is true opinion.

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.

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.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn’t possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

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

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

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 sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

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.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.