I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I like definitive things.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Debates, I hate.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

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.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

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.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.