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

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

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.

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

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

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.

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

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

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Football is all about fans.

We murdered them 0-0.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

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

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

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.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

My first win feels better than a draw!

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

Football is unconditional love.

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

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

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

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

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.

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

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

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

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.