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

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

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

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

In the NBA, you’re never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

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.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

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

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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.

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

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

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

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

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

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

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

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

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

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I love being in a courtroom.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.