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

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Football is unconditional love.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

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

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

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

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.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

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.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

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

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

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

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

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

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

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

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.

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

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

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

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.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.