No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

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

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Losing is tough.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

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

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

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

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.