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.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

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

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

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.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

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

I just want to do well with the national team.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I love movement. I love moshing.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.