Bobby Riggs Quotes

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

Bobby Riggs

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Question
  • Child
  • Silent

• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Recognize
  • Arts
  • Cultural

• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Playing

• There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Men
  • Like
  • Hustle

• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • History
  • Culture

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Prison

• I think it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naive belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • World
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • War
  • Drama
  • Wind

• I think everyone who's successful consistently is ambitious.

  

  James Lassiter

• If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Money