I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

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.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

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.

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.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

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.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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

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.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

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

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

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

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

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

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

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I’m really a normal football manager.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

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.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I’m never nervous.

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.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

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

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

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

In the NBA, you’re never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.