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

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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

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

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.

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.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

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.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

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.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

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

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

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

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers‘ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

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

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

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.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

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

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

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.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

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

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

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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.

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’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.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

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.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I’m really a normal football manager.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

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.

Football is unconditional love.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

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.

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

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.