Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.
Sports saved my life.
Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.
Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Sports can't be run by governments.
Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Sports fans eat shit.
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.
When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate.
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
The door can never be closed for good to any player.
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
My memories of events and games are fragmented.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine. He must not impose his student to fit a lifeless pattern, a preformulation.
A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.
A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
A conditioned mind is never a free mind.
