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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

I’m committed to the fight game.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

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

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

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.

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

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

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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

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.

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

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

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.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

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

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

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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

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.

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

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I just want to do well with the national team.

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.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

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.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

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

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Football is a sad game.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.