Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

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

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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

Cleveland fans are awesome.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

It is my job to help the players react better.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Oh, 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.

Football is a sad game.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

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.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

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

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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 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.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

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

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.