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

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

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

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

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

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

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

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

My first win feels better than a draw!

Cleveland fans are awesome.

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

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

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

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

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

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.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

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.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I just want to do well with the national team.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

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.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.