Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Virenque

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

John Gibbons

I don't think it is anything serious. He went back to Toronto with tenderness in his forearm. It should just be one start.

Donnie Edwards

I don't even worry about that anymore. .Ê.Ê. Ten years it hasn't happened.

Joel Robuchon

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Bradley Whitford

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

George R. R. Martin

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

Andy Roddick

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Andy Roddick

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

Clive James

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

Clive James

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Ann Patchett

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Andre Agassi

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Althea Gibson

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Andy Murray

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Andy Murray

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Donald Rumsfeld

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

David Oyelowo

I love tennis, love it!

Dabney Coleman

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

Dan Fogelberg

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

Daniela Hantuchova

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

Andre Agassi

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.