Court Quotes - Page 27

• 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

  Goal, Focus, Tennis

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• I was surprised how I was feeling on the court because I was focused only on the point and on the game and not on the final.

  Petra Kvitova

  Games, Focus, Feelings

  "Kvitova Captures First Wimbledon Title by Beating Sharapova" by Danielle Rossingh, www.bloomberg.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

  Pete Sampras

  Careers, Focus, Tennis

  Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.10, Crown Archetype

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• Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Play, Focus

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• Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

  George Burns

  Men, Games, Play

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• I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Hands, Play

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• The run of the ball is not in our court at the moment

  Phil Neal

  Soccer, Running, Balls

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• Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

  Rod Laver

  Stars, Kids, Play

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• Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

  Marat Safin

  Player, Games, Tennis

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• She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder.

  John Inverdale

  Long, Tennis, Faces

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• In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Party, Dancing, Justice

  "Orloff v. Willoughby, 345 U.S. 83, 87". Judicial opinion, 1953.

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• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

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• I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

  Minimaks

  Kings, Forgiving, Desire

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• It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

  George Clooney

  Country, Law, Play

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• It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

  Randal Cremer

  War, Fighting, Law

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• We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

  Pete McCloskey

  Independence, Church, Separation

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• Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Long, People

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• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Michael Kinsley

  Marijuana, Law, Judging

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• The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.

  John Bruton

  Determination, War, Book

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• There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

  Josiah Wedgwood

  Country, Men, English History

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• One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

  C.D. Payne

  Children, Dad, Kids

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

  Cass Sunstein

  Gun, Views, Second Amendment

  "Founding Fathers vs. Today's Progressives" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2009.

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• You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

  Mario Savio

  Rights, Lasts, Resorts

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Responsibility, Years, Law

  "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Home, Eye, Army

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