It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

Bring them on.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.