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.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

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

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

My reputation precedes me now.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

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.

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.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

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.

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

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

Life is precious.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

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

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.