I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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

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

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

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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

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.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

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

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.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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

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.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

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

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

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.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

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

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

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.

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.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

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

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

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

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

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.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

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

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.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

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

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

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.

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

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

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.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.