There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

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

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

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

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.