I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

My first win feels better than a draw!

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

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.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

I love imperfections.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

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

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.