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"Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself."
"If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys."
"Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts."
"I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more."
"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
"I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?"
"I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me."
"I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future."
"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."
"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."
"I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe."
"It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
"I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys."
"For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man."
"The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules."
"It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !"
"The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport."
"I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him."
"A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee."
"Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement."
