Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested Crystal Palace being one but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports and especially relationships between players and coaches that people lose track lose a sense of reality.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be what position they'd play and so on.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy let them buy a dog.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

The fewer rules a coach has the fewer rules there are for players to break.

He's going to be around a long long time if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

She felt like a chess player who by the clever handling of his pieces sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

I haven't seen a player in this game as long as I've been in it that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.