February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

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.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

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

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

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

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.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

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

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

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

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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

I’m really a normal football manager.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

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.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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

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

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

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

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.

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

It’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

I’m looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It’s a special club.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.