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

I’m always hungry to score.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

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

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

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

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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

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

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.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

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

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

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.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

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.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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

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

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

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

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

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

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

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

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

I get a little bit emotional during a game!