Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

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

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

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.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

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

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

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.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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.

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

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

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

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I think governments can’t do much.

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

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

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

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

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

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

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

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

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

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

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.

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.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

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

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.