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.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

The best way out is always through.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

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’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

History, a distillation of rumour.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

What is once well done is done forever.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Never, never, never give up.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.