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.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

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

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.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented 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.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

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.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

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.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

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.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

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

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

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

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

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.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.