To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

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.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

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.

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.

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.‘

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

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.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

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.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

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’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

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

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

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.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

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

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

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

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

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.