“But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'”

“Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.”

“I Own the guy guarding me”

“There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”