When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

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.

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.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Talking 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.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

Solutions are not the answer.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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.

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

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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.

As 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.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

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