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.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

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.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

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 was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

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

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

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

I’m really a normal football manager.

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.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

My grandpa was a preacher.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

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?

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

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

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

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.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

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

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

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.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.