I get a little bit emotional during a game!

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

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.

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.

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.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

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

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.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

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

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Football is a sad game.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

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.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

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

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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

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

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

I’m always hungry to score.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

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

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

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.