Court Quotes
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When they court announcers say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.
Roger Federer
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It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
William O. Douglas
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
Stan Smith
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You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.
Red Auerbach
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There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
William Barclay
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.
Antonio McDyess
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I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.
Serena Williams
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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.
Karch Kiraly
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Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,
By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,
And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Tobias Smollett
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
Rufus Choate
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Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
Gary W. Goldstein
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What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
Michael Finley
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You just can't unilaterally make changes unless there's some agreement and the court approves it.
Ed Garvey
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And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
Cecile Richards
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We're underdogs, but that means we can play free with nothing to lose. We want to leave it all on the court. This is something we're going to remember the rest of our lives.
Doug Parker
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Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
Cate Tiernan
