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

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

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.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

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

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

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.

Football is a sad game.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

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

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

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

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.