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

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

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.

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.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

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.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

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.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

I just want to do well with the national team.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

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.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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

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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

A chorus is not easy.

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.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

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

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

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

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.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

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

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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.

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

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

God created man, but I could do better.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

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.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

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

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.