In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

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.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

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

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

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

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

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.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.