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

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

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

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

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

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

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

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

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.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

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.

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

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.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

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

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.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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

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.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

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.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

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

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 have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.