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

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

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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.

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

We murdered them 0-0.

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’m really a normal football manager.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

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.

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

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

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 get a little bit emotional during a game!

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

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.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

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.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

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

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

My first win feels better than a draw!

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them? You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

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.

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

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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 used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

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 can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

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

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

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

Football is unconditional love.