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.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

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.

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.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Football is unconditional love.

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.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

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

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

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

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

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.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

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

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

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

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 signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

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

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.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.