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.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I can dance to just about anything.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

I’m not a centerfold.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

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.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

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’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

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.

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.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

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.

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.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

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

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

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

I can move any crowd.

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

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I just want to do well with the national team.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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

Boldness be my friend.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

Success is the child of audacity.