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

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

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

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

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.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

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

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

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.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

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

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

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

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

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

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

We murdered them 0-0.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn’t much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn’t even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?