Court Quotes

• You don’t win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • Win
  • Ball
  • Do Not

• Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Country
  • Looks
  • Borders

• I just want to be perfect on court, but is not possible. The perfect doesn't exist.

  

  Simona Halep
  • Perfect
  • Exist
  • Court

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Regard

• I was just laughing. I just ran down the court laughing, like thank God that went in. That was big for us.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Laughing
  • Court
  • Thank God

• When we are on the court we forget that.

  

  Anastasia Myskina
  • Forget
  • Court

• 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
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Court

• Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Best
  • Company
  • Glorious

• When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Court

• 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
  • Joy
  • Justice
  • Pleasure

• People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Winning
  • Superhero
  • Robot

• 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
  • Female
  • Welcome
  • Males

• A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

  

  Albert Kesselring
  • Leader
  • Situation
  • Court

• A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Female
  • Endeavors
  • Wipe

• He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Conditions
  • Court
  • Fraud

• Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Pretend

• Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin

  

  Richard Krajicek
  • Court

• I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Problem
  • Feels
  • Might

• In the first place, I should like to state to the Tribunal that I am fully aware of the serious character of the charges against me. I know the hatred of the world is directed against me; that I particularly since Himmler, Müller, and Pohl are no longer alive, must here, alone, give an account to the world and the Tribunal. I realize that I shall have to tell the truth in this courtroom, in order to enable the Court and the world to fully recognize and understand what has been going on in Germany during this war and to judge it with fairness.

  

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Realize

• Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Joy
  • Tennis
  • Court

• I know I have to learn how to turn it on and off. I have to learn to be a totally different player on the court than I am off the court. That's kind of what I'm struggling with right now, just trying to find that switch so I can turn it on and off.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Player
  • Learn
  • Turn

• After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Help
  • Dreams
  • Achieve

• Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

  

  Nicole Blackman
  • Bed
  • Court
  • Get Off

• The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Enough

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