An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

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.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

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

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

I’m an atheist.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

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.

I’m always hungry to score.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

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.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

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.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

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

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

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

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Football is unconditional love.

Football is all about fans.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

I’m really a normal football manager.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

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

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

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

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Football is a sad game.

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.

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

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

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.