I will fight in many weight divisions.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

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

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

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

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

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Football is all about fans.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

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

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Football is a sad game.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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

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.

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

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

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

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

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.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

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