Laver Quotes

#1. Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that's a great compliment for us.

Ilie Nastase

#2. You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.

Jim Courier

#3. My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.

Pete Sampras

#4. The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

Pancho Gonzales

#5. When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Rod Laver

#6. The next point - that's all you must think about.

Rod Laver

#7. When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.

James Laver

#8. I never thought that I will be famous in math with this that with wrong solving the problems in math I get the right answer. But it looks I'm now Famous!

Deyth Banger

#9. I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Rod Laver

#10. There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Rod Laver

#11. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#12. When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

James Laver

#13. Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

James Laver

#14. The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

James Laver

#15. The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Rod Laver

#16. Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

James Laver

#17. The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Viktor E. Frankl

#18. Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

James Laver

#19. Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'

Linwood Barclay

#20. I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, ordinary thought in my head

Haruki Murakami

#21. You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are always logical explanations.

D.J. MacHale

#22. When you've got your man down, rub him out.

Rod Laver

#23. An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Rod Laver

#24. Don't allow people into your energy field on a regular basis that you wouldn't want to be like yourself.

Dawn Gluskin

#25. There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

Richard Jeni

#26. Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.

James Laver

#27. Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind,

Rod Laver

#28. Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.

Michael Hyatt

#29. Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

James Laver

#30. Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

James Laver

#31. I like to let my racket do the talking.

Rod Laver

#32. The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

Rod Laver

#33. Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis ... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

Rod Laver

#34. The act of trusting your heart to another is a leap of faith. You can never know if your love shall last forever, or if the other might crush your heart to dust. It is a risk, the biggest you shall ever undertake. All you can do is take it one day at a time, but never take it for granted.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#35. The space where I write is in my head, I suppose.

Sara Sheridan

#36. Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

Bess Truman

#37. Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

Stephen King