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

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

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

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 taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

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.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

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

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

My first win feels better than a draw!

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

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

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

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

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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.

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.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

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

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I’m really a normal football manager.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

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.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.