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.

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

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.

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

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

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

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

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.

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 coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

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.

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.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

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

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

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

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

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

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.

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

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

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

I’m committed to the fight game.

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

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

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the ’40s – there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

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.

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.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

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.

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

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

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.

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.

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

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.

We murdered them 0-0.

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

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.