Richard Krajicek Quotes
Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river - but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself - a thing that went on caring.
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Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.
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People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.
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Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.
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The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going.
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I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
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I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.
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I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
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Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
