Pete Sampras Quotes

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Pete Sampras

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• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Woman
  • Story

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

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

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Running
  • Show
  • Agenda

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Soul
  • House
  • Body

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Drama
  • Rich
  • Become

• My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Women
  • Home
  • Mother

• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

  

  Faizon Love
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Long
  • Coach

• I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Moment
  • Permanent
  • Muses

• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Always

• History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • History
  • Government
  • Enemy

• Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
  • Charms

• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  

  Jim Courier
  • America
  • College
  • Player

• Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Character
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Up
  • Style

• The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Heart
  • Culture

• I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Tennis