If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

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.

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.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

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.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I always said that I wouldn’t use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I’ll hang it up.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

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

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

A chorus is not easy.

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

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.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

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

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

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

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

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

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.

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

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

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

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

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.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

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

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

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.

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

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.