Semifinals Quotes

#1. I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

Lleyton Hewitt

#2. It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

A. J. Jacobs

#3. When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'

Mats Wilander

#4. The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.

Theo Rossi

#5. I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

Gabriela Sabatini

#6. World Cup. "It's got to be Ireland," said Charlie thickly, through a mouthful of potato. "They flattened Peru in the semifinals.

J.K. Rowling

#7. I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

Stefan Edberg

#8. The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Simone Weil

#9. A first love always occupies a special place.

Lee Konitz

#10. We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

Peter Sotos

#12. It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus ... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized dildo in a guinea pig.

Charles Stross

#13. [I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.

Paul Krugman

#14. We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers.

Henry Giroux

#15. I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

Molly Ringwald

#16. Conscience is God's presence in humans.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#17. I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

D.H. Lawrence

#18. Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

Euclid

#19. Beer goggles are no match for atrocious lighting.

Jessica Park

#20. The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good. A sacrifice which does not increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.

John Stuart Mill