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

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

Football is all about fans.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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.

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.

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

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.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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.

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

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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

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.

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 black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

A good song never gets old.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

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.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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

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

Football is a sad game.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

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.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.