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

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

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.

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.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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 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.

Football is all about fans.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

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

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

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

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.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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

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.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.