All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

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

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

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.

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.‘

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

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

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

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

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

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

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 used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.