I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

Character is power.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I always said that I wouldn’t use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I’ll hang it up.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

I hid myself in food.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

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.

My whole life is a theater piece.

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.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

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

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

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

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.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

We never repent of having eaten too little.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

I think California has the best energy.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.