It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

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.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

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.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I like pushing boundaries.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

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.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

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

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

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

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.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We murdered them 0-0.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Football is unconditional love.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

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 was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

I always make my dreams into goals.