Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Opportunity makes a thief.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

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

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

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.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

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.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Football is a sad game.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.