Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!
I met Muhammad Ali in Toronto when he was still Cassius Clay... We got to talking and it was like we knew each other for 50 years. We just clicked.
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.
Pelé was a complete player. I didn't see him live obviously, because I wasn't born.
I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
I always say, to this day, that the Air Jordan guy was great and God bless him. But I'll always just remember Michael, the guy.
It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see.
Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.
He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'
I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.
The first thing that came to mind when I met Tom Brady was intimidation. I'm showing up in 2005 with a guy who just came off his third Super Bowl win. So, it's a little intimidating walking in the room with Tom Brady for the first time.
As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.
Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.
Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.
There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate.
I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen
I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.
