I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball
I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings. . . . if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there
The beginning of it starts at the end
Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important. " "It was probably important to her.