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

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 was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I’m really a normal football manager.

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.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Dissents speak to a future age.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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.

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

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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.

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

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

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

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

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

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

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

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.