All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

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

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

Let the path be open to talent.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

I’m really a normal football manager.

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.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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

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

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

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.

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

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

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

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

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.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

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.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

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.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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

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

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.