Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

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

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

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

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

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

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

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

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

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

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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.

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

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.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

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.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

All art is quite useless.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

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

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

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

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