Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

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

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I don’t like to be bored.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

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.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

Football is unconditional love.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I just want to do well with the national team.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

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

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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

I like my fair share of board games.

Man, I really like Vegas.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

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

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

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

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Stand-up is my baby.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.