When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

I’m always hungry to score.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

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

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

I’m committed to the fight game.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

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.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

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

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.