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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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.

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

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

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.

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

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

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.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

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

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

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.

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

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

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

We murdered them 0-0.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

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

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

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.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.