February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

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

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

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

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

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.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

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.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

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

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I’m always hungry to score.

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

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I shoot the ball so well that sometimes you fall in love with it and think it’ll get you out of certain situations.

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

My first win feels better than a draw!

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.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

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.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

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.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

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

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

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

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

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

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

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

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

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

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.

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

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

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

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

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.