Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

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

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

After 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!

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Football is a sad game.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

I’m really a normal football manager.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

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

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.

The 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.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

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.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

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.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

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

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.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

Cleveland fans are awesome.

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

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.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn’t possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

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

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

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.