I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My 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.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

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.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

My 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.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I think that success is having fun.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

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.

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

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

I 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.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

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

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

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.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

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

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.