There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

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

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I 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.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

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.

History, a distillation of rumour.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

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

Football is a sad game.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

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.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

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.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

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.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.