Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

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

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

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

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

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

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.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

We murdered them 0-0.

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 like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

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

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

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.

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 try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

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.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

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

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

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

I still work out on a daily basis.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

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

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

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.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

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

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

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 just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

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

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

Working out anchors my day.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

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.

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

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.