I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

I’m always hungry to score.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

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

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

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

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

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

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

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

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

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

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.