While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

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

Football is a sad game.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

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

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

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.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

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

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

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

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.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

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.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

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.

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

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

We murdered them 0-0.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.