Sourav Ganguly Quotes

As a player, you always want to play - it would be wrong to say otherwise - but you can always understand the manager's reasons if he decides to leave you out.

World Cup 2003 was the worst phase in my career, but that is now behind me, and I am doing all-out efforts to get my place in the team back and further my career.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

His return gives England another key to its bow.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

You always catch the wrong players.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

I will keep playing domestic cricket. I feel I am good enough to get back into the Indian team, and playing domestic cricket is the only way out. So I will keep playing.

The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that