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

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’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

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.

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.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

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.

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

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

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

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

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

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

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.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

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

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

I’m really a normal football manager.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

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

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

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

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

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

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.

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

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

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.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

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

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

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.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

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