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

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

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

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

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

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

We murdered them 0-0.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

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

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

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.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

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.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

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

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

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

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

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

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

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Oh, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.