My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Football is a sad game.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

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.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

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

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Football is unconditional love.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.