Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

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.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

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.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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 have always thought I was the best ever player.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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.

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

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

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

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

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

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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 started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

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.

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

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

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

We murdered them 0-0.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

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.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.