When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

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

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

My business is to prevent the future.

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.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

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

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.