All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

We murdered them 0-0.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Money can’t buy life.