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

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

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

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

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

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

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

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

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

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.

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.

A good song never gets old.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

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

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

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.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

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

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.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

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

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

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.

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

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

Career highlights? I had two – I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

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

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

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.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

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

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, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

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

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.

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.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.