As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

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

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

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

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

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

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.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

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

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

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.

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

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

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.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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.

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

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

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

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

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

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

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

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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.

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

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

I just want to do well with the national team.

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

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

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

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.