If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

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

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.

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

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

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

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

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

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. 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.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

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

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

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.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

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

Football is unconditional love.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

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

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

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.

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.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

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

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

I idolised IM Vijayan and Krisanu Dey when I started watching football. After that, it was Bhaichung Bhutia in India and Brazilian Ronaldo abroad.

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

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

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

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