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.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

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.

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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

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

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

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.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

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

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

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.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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

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

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

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.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

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.

I’m always hungry to score.

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.

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

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’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

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

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

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

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

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

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

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

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

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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.

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.

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.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.