One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

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.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I can be a cruel person.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

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.

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.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘