Court Quotes
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You just can't unilaterally make changes unless there's some agreement and the court approves it.
Ed Garvey -
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
Thomas Sowell
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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 -
When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
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 -
Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
Arturo Graf -
I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.
Michele Bachmann
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They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.
Colin Falconer -
That number should really increase after we win on the appeal that the city filed. People right now are not applying because they are chilled by the fact that the city is not complying with the court ruling.
Alan Gottlieb -
It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
Cecile Richards -
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.
Ayelet Shaked -
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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I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
Nina Totenberg -
Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.
Serena Williams -
Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.
Nicole Blackman -
One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
Roger Federer -
If you can break bread with a guy, you will actually go the extra mile on the court; that just happens.
Steven Adams -
I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.
Tom Heinsohn
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The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
Right now it's really difficult to understand what I have to do on court, ... When the ball comes to me, I don' know what I have to do, where I have to put the ball. I have no confidence at all.
Anastasia Myskina -
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Serena Williams -
For almost a century after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Court followed this narrow reading of the Equal Protection Clause and refused to use it to stop other types of discrimination. For example, in 1875, two years after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Supreme Court held that it was constitutional to deny women the right to vote.
Erwin Chemerinsky