Rackets Quotes

#1. Many kingdoms and empires were in truth little more than large protection rackets. The king was the capo di tutti capi who collected protection money, and in return made sure that neighbouring crime syndicates and local small fry did not harm those under his protection. He did little else.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. Race preservation is a myth ... a myth that you all have lived by - a sordid thing that has arisen out of your social structure. The race ends every day. When a man dies the race ends for him - so far as he's concerned there is no longer any race.

Clifford D. Simak

#3. Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

Henry Lawson

#4. For what is history, but ... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

#5. My mom was the strongest woman I know.

DeAngelo Williams

#6. As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#7. The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

D.J. Taylor

#8. This is how it starts. This is how I set myself up for pain and tragedy and endings where I want eternities.

Kiersten White

#9. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara

#10. I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies.

Sylvia Plath

#11. It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

John McEnroe

#13. When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.

Robert Kennedy

#14. We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
His present and your pains we thank you for:
When we have match'd our rackets to these balls,
We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
King Henry, scene ii

William Shakespeare

#15. My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Al Capone

#16. We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

Sherilyn Fenn

#17. In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic papacy developed into an abusive, corrupt, autocratic, totalitarian system by claiming apostolic authority through a supposed line of succession back to Peter.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#18. I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

Nikolay Davydenko

#19. Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#20. I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Janet Fitch

#21. To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants ... Life has become impossible.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#22. "What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.

Leonard Jacobson

#23. Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

Brad Gilbert

#24. To Serve and Protect ... - Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

Robert Asprin

#25. Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Noel Coward

#26. It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Marat Safin