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

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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

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.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

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.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

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.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I 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.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

Football is all about fans.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

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 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.

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.

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

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.