I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

I do my job like I breathe.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

The world remains ever the same.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

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.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I shoot the ball so well that sometimes you fall in love with it and think it’ll get you out of certain situations.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.