If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

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.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

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

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

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

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

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

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

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

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

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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

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

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.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Football is all about fans.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

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