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"Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away... It's a game."
"Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair."
"Individuals score points, but teams win games."
"I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be."
"Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations"
"I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house."
"It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish."
"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."
"I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children."
"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."
"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about."
"Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people."
"I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored."
"Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident."
"I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables."
"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet."
"Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy."
"I wanted to use sports for social change."
"I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much."
