Racquets Quotes

#1. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Rafael Nadal

#2. I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

Goran Ivanisevic

#3. When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made ... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

Saina Nehwal

#4. Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Honore De Balzac

#5. I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Yannick Noah

#6. Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

Marat Safin

#7. Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.

Goran Ivanisevic

#8. Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

Helen Wills Moody

#9. I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

Jana Novotna

#10. Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Honore De Balzac

#11. The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.

Lincoln Barnett

#12. You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Jon Gordon

#13. I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

Gioconda Belli

#14. Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

Kevin Mitnick

#15. Sharon exuded the brightness of a firefly, the confidence of a double-decker bus, the optimism of a hedgehog and the tact of a small thermonuclear missile.

Kate Griffin

#16. Sharing your success with others reveals your true humanity. Don't ever be afraid to open your heart to that practice. It has made all the world of difference to me.

Andrea Michaels

#17. Let a woman too close, and while she sucked your cock, she sucked your brains and manhood right out of you, too.

Larissa Ione

#18. Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination.
("Sir Edmund Orme")

Henry James

#19. I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.

Susan Isaacs

#20. there is no such thing as poverty; only the absence of wealth (Jacobs, 1969; and see Piachaud, 2002

Hartley Dean

#21. One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

John Updike

#22. I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

Beth Ditto