Quotes from Sunil Chhetri

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn't possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

It doesn't matter who you are - if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that's really good for the nation.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There's much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I've married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I'm just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

If I do the right things on and off the field that's how a player is going to learn.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn't easy before but now its second nature for me.

I have become vegan - I don't take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it's going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.