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.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

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.

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

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

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

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

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.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

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.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

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

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.