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

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

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

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

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

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.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I’m really a normal football manager.

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

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

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.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

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.

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.

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

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

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

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

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

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

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

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

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

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

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.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

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.

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

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

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 swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

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.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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