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.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

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

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

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

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

I like school and I like learning.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

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

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

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

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.