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

I just want to do well with the national team.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

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

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

In 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.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

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

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.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

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

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

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

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.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

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 failed to make the chess team because of my height.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

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

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.