Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

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

Football is a sad game.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

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

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

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

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

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.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

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

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

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.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

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.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers‘ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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

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

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

When 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.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

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.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.