Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

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

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Football is all about fans.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

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

Football is a sad game.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

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.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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.

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.

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

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

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

I’m really a normal football manager.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

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

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

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

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

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

I’m always hungry to score.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.