In my heart, I am always a Raider.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

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.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

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

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn’t possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

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.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

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

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.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

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

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

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.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

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

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

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

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.