Chris Evert Quotes

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evert

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• Tennis
• Champion
• Selfish

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• Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

  

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• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

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• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

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• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

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• Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

  

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• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

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• If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.

  

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• 'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

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• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

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• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

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• VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

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• In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

  

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• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

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• The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

  

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• We won 10 in a row at Lake Geneva (Raceway) with a Mid-Am car, and this is three times as big as that. This is the Milwaukee Mile. This is like Daytona for the little guys. I can't believe it.

  

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• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Vision
  • Tennis
  • Champion