I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I’m committed to the fight game.

Football is a sad game.

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

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I like my fair share of board games.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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.

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.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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

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.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

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.

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

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Oh, 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.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I’ve always been a tennis fan.

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

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.