Allan Border Quotes

OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.

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• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Myself
  • Film
  • Performance

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Lost
  • Purpose
  • Practice

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Real
  • You
  • Me

• Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • High
  • Me

• So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Friendship
  • Mr. Harwood

• As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Want
  • Eat

• OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.

  

  Allan Border
  • Want
  • Play
  • Find