There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

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

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

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

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

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

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

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

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

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.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

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.

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

David Beckham has never impressed me.

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

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

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

We murdered them 0-0.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

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.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

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

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

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

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

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.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

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

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

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

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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.

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.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

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

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.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

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

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

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.