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.

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.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

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 want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I just want to be a great example to younger kids.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

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

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

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

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.

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.