While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

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.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

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

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

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 want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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

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

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

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

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

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.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

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.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

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.

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

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.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

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

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

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.