Bjorn Borg Quotes

#1. Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

Argus Hamilton

#2. Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

Richard Krajicek

#3. Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Clive James

#4. Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

Clive James

#5. Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

Dave Reichert

#6. My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Garrison Keillor

#7. improbable to Tom that such endless space could exist

M.L. Stedman

#8. Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

Bjorn Borg

#9. He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

Bjorn Borg

#10. I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.

Bjorn Borg

#11. Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Alex Ebert

#12. You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

Bjorn Borg

#13. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being.

R.W. Southern

#15. I just hated to lose.

Bjorn Borg

#16. If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

Bjorn Borg

#17. I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

Bjorn Borg

#18. My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

#19. Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

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#20. Villains are not born - they are made. And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.

Renee Bernard

#21. I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

Bjorn Borg

#22. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

Linda Hunt

#23. On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

Bjorn Borg

#24. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

Bjorn Borg

#25. The ball is round, the game is long.

Bjorn Borg

#26. I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Bjorn Borg

#27. It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Bjorn Borg

#28. Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

Bjorn Borg

#29. Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

Francisco Leon

#30. I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Josh Billings

#31. He'd probably disappear into a puff of smoke that spelled out "nope" in the air if Kelly told him he'd proposed while drugged.

Abigail Roux

#32. You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Bjorn Borg

#33. Roger Federer is stylish.

Bjorn Borg

#34. Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

John C. Maxwell

#35. I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

Bjorn Borg

#36. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

Bjorn Borg

#37. You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Bjorn Borg

#38. When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

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#39. I wanted to win, even in practice.

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#40. I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

Mary Shelley

#41. It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

Bjorn Borg