Bobby Riggs Quotes

All my life, everything has been a contest.

Bobby Riggs

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• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Goals
  • Diversity
  • Sales

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Kind
  • Training
  • Yoga

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • You
  • Day
  • Year

• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Style
  • Unique
  • Yourself

• The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Down

• Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Looking

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Best
  • Yourself

• It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Amazing
  • Feel
  • Retirement

• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Lost

• My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

  

  Bruno Latour
  • People
  • Nature
  • Pretty

• Before I lived in America, my husband and I did a Californian road trip. We took a month, starting off in L.A. I love the landscapes of California: one moment you're in the desert, the next you're up in the Napa Valley or by the water in Big Bear.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Up
  • America
  • Water

• All my life, everything has been a contest.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Life