Wilbur Ross Quotes

Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

Wilbur Ross

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• I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Team
  • Change

• In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Feel
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Look

• With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• ‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Tennis

• I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Tennis

• I was a tennis player in high school and college.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.

  

  Om Malik
  • High
  • Travel
  • Driving

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Dream
  • Tennis

• It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Different
  • High
  • Drama

• I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.

  

  Beth Riesgraf
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Tennis

• I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

  

  Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
  • Cool
  • Tennis

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• I'm just happy for him that he is playing well, ... A lot of times up here you go through tough things. At any one time in the NFL, you're going to have a number of players on a team who are going through tough situations. A lot of times the way they handle it is a measure of someone's character. I think that was Mark's situation last year and Patrick's situation now. The way you go through the tough times leads you to improvement and great performance in the future. It's a test of character when you go through that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Spilled out stories about painful marriages, difficult children, and guilt over abortions. As they spoke, they visibly brightened and often thanked me effusively for listening to them.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Listening
  • Marriages
  • Abortions

• I don't plan on being bashful.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Being
  • Plan
  • Bashful

• Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Tennis
  • Hours
  • Weekend