You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

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.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

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

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

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

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

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

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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

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

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

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

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

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.

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.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Football is a sad game.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

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.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Ability without honor is useless.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

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

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

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.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

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

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I’m always hungry to score.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

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 know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.