In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

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.

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

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.

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.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn’t go to college ‚cause I wasn’t smart enough, so I’d resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

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

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

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.

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.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

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.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

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.

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

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

I’m really a normal football manager.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

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

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Football is all about fans.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

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

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

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

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

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