Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

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.

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

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I’m always hungry to score.

Better never than late.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

I often work by avoidance.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

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

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

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I have wasted my hours.

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

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

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

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.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

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.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

My first win feels better than a draw!

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.