I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

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.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I just want to do well with the national team.

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.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

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.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

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

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

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.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

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 have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

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.

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.

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

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

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

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.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

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.