I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

I’m always hungry to score.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

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

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.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I’m committed to the fight game.

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

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

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

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

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

I’ve played real people before, but I never knew them.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

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

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

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

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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

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

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.