Chris Evert Quotes

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Chris Evert

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• We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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  • Work
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• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Disease
  • Sensitive

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
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  • Man
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• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Moment

• Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Character
  • Man
  • Moment

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Me
  • Change
  • Stronger

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  

  Florence King
  • True
  • Memories
  • Nostalgia

• Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Behavior

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It's always something that interests me, crafting a really perfect pop gem, but it's not a lifelong obsession. I've kind of moved beyond it. I think I needed to get that out of my system, to exorcise.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
  • Interest
  • System
  • Moved

• Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

  

  Kehlani
  • Sex

• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Great
  • Play
  • Crazy

• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • People
  • Great
  • Theatre

• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest