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.

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.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

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

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

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

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

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

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

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

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

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.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

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.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

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

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

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

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

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

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.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Football is all about fans.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.