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

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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

Football is all about fans.

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.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

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

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

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

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.

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.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

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

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.

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 working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

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

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

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I’m not Russell Crowe. I’m not going to do a period piece.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

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

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

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 done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

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.

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.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

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

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

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

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.

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.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

I’m really a normal football manager.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.