Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

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

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

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

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.

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.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

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.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

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.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

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

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

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 like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

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

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

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

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

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

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.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

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

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

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

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

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

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers‘ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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