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 have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

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

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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

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

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

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.

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.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

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.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

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.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

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

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.

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.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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

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

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

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.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

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

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

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

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

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.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

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

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.