Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Althea Gibson

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Andy Murray

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Andy Roddick

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Andy Roddick

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Ron Livingston

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Taylor Mali

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Philip Roth

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Oscar Wilde

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Melanie Laurent

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Garth Nix

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Tom Robbins

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Neil Gaiman

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Mark Twain

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Kelsey Jakupcin

She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Jerry Harrison

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.