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.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

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.

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

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

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.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

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

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.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

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

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

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

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.

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.

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 am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

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.

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.

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

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

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

Few people have the imagination for reality.

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

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

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.

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

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. 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.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

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

Football is a sad game.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.