If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

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.

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

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

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

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

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 don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. 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.

Oh, 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.

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.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

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.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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

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

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

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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.

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

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

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

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Football is a sad game.

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.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Football is all about fans.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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

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

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

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

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

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.

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’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.