My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

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

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

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.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

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

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

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

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

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

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 a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

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.

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

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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

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.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.