I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

There is no gambling like politics.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

A President cannot always be popular.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.