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

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

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

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I always wanted to be loved.

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

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

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.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

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

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.