Garfield Sobers Quotes

I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.

It's an honour to captain the West Indies.

I would never let myself go back there to play another 82-game season in Seattle. I think the team deserves better and the fans deserve better.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Irrespective of whether Anil Kumble is the coach or Ravi Shastri, what's more important is that India wins.

Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.

If we are going to win games, we need 11 fit players. Sir Alex Ferguson does not pick half-fit players.

You can't expect a coach to win with guys that don't even care about the game.

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

I'm most proud of a couple of things. Firstly what we managed to do with the team from 2009 to get them to win the Ashes in Australia. That was remarkable. And secondly moving England forward in white-ball cricket because that is where the game is going and we need to be at the vanguard.

I want to score more goals, to play more games, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is that the team wins. The other things come with that.

Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

It does not bother me that £60m has been paid for me. I come here to work and play for the club and to do the best I can for Manchester United.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

The most important thing is to keep our basics strong in both batting and bowling.

Experienced national players deserve at least some respect and loyalty.

I am always committed to West Indies cricket.

I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don't see why there is any reason to pick out one individual as the MVP because it is about a team winning a championship. Maybe that best explains what I believe in at the core in my work as a broadcaster.

I have some goals I'm looking to achieve, and one thing is to help the team win and move back up the ladder. This is vitally important to the team overall and to the supporters of West Indies cricket.

The way I've always approached it is if we're winning and people want to talk about me, it's fine. If we're losing, then you really get on me, and I'll definitely try to be better to help us win. But I'm fine with it, as long as we're winning and we're playing good basketball.

In the Premier League, we have to play a lot, and we always need the support of the fans.

It won't matter who starts and who plays, the most important thing is the Egyptian national team and we will do our best.