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.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

London is a roost for every bird.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

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

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

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.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

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

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

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.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

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

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do 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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

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.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

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.

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 have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

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

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.