Jim Palmer

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.