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

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

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

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

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

We murdered them 0-0.

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

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.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

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.

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

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

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

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

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.

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.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

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.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

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

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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.

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

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

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

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

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

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.

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.

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

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.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

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.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.