Golf is a better game played downhill.

When the student is ready… the lesson appears.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight – I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub – there were...

I’m in trouble because I’m normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don’t like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.

Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years...

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I’ve ever seen.

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it’s hard to say no. But I don’t want to accept that kind of money right now. I’d feel burdened by it.

It’s not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

It’ll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t...

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

Just take your time – wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through...

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming – being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

It’s not that difficult to win. It’s more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

And that’s what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

Everyone has a Latino inside them.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

You shouldn’t just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week he might have lasted a long time and become a great star.

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

I wouldn’t mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

When you’re comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that’s how me and J. are. When we’re in a room together, we don’t have to say anything. It’s for real.

So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was hit hard and straight at an infielder.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched...

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

She told me I wasn’t playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.