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

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

My first win feels better than a draw!

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

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 have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

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.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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.

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.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

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.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

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

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

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

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

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.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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.

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

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

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

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.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

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.

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

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

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

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.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

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.

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

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.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

In the NBA, you’re never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

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

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

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

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.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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

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

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

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.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.