Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
Muhammad AliI’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.
DrakeI 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.
Lou HoltzAll the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.
Sunil ChhetriI guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.
Lando NorrisI failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody AllenWhat is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
Jurgen KloppFootball is unconditional love.
Tom BradyI am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
Virat KohliThe first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.
Sunil ChhetriI have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.
Lou HoltzMy grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
Dwayne JohnsonWell, 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.
LeBron JamesI 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.
Jimmy CarterFighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.
Jurgen KloppBaseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Babe RuthFootball in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-PowellI like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.
Tom BradyWhile playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.
Henny YoungmanWhere would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Bob UeckerFootball is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
Jurgen KloppAs long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.
Sunil ChhetriMy 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.
Virat KohliI really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.
Virat KohliBoxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad AliI 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.
LeBron JamesI swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
Gordon RamsayAfter the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!
Sunil ChhetriThe best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.
Jurgen KloppI saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.
Lando NorrisYou know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“
LeBron JamesI 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.
Sunil ChhetriSometimes 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.
LeBron JamesI noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.
George BestMy goal is to be number one in MMA.
Conor McGregorI 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.
Tom BradyPlayers today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.
George BestPlayers who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.
Jurgen KloppYou want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.
Kobe BryantYou can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.
Sunil ChhetriWhoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.
Sunil ChhetriI don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.
Lando NorrisOrdinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.
Sunil ChhetriI’m really a normal football manager.
Jurgen KloppIn England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.
Jurgen KloppAnyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
Anthony BourdainAn agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.
Lou HoltzWhen 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.
George BestI want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
Lady GagaFootball is a sad game.
George BestAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Lou HoltzI treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LeBron JamesTo be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
Cristiano RonaldoIn 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.
Lou HoltzWe don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.
Jurgen KloppAs a part of the NFL, things change every year.
Tom BradyGolf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark TwainMy game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.
LeBron JamesIf you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
Lou Holtz