My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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

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

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.