A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill ShanklyI made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice WalkerI respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.
DrakeFootball changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
Dwayne JohnsonAt 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.
Herbert HooverA friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.
Tom BradyIf all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalAs long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.
George BestOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar WildeThe fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle ObamaA good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Robert Baden-PowellA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. RockefellerOnly enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingI’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.
Jerry SeinfeldIt’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.
George BestFootball is all about fans.
Sunil ChhetriI was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.
Robert GreeneAs a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
Stephen HawkingAll the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.
Sunil ChhetriSerious sport is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellAt United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.
Cristiano RonaldoYou send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Virginia WoolfI can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
Ariana GrandeI 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.
Muhammad AliI’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
Matthew McConaugheyIn England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
Jurgen KloppThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.
Tom BradyA friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil GibranThroughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt CobainIn this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.
Jeff BezosGreat American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Dan QuayleNo one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
PlatoFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleFew friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise PascalThe fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand RussellAmerica and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack ObamaThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauThe more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl MarxTalking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.
Sunil ChhetriMe and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.
DrakeIt may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert HubbardI enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
Conor McGregorAll of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI 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.
Muhammad AliI just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.
Steven WrightAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie RobinsonI know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.
Stephen CurryBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar WildeWe know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
Barack ObamaBring them on.
George W. BushI never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl LagerfeldI’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.
Taylor SwiftWe murdered them 0-0.
Bill ShanklyIf I do the right things on and off the field that’s how a player is going to learn.
Sunil ChhetriEducation levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
Joyce MeyerThere are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinExperts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn MonroeYou can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway