Football is a sad game.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

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

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

Football is a contact sport. So, on the pitch, it isn’t possible to maintain distance like you can in an office job.

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

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

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

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.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

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.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.