Chris Evert Quotes

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Chris Evert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 21, 1954

Topics

GivingYouRelationshipsTennis

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

Jens Lekman

MyselfSayingFaceYouGoWay

The LeBron 11, for $200, has hyperposite construction - a combination of Foamposite material and performance synthetics - and a new layer of Lunarlon cushioning; and anyway, Nike generates about $300 million off the sneakers.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

Jeff Fisher

RunKidsAthletic

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

John Stuart Mill

PowerNameMassesOnlyInstincts

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

Amy Heckerling

TreatPersonMoviesFairPrettyWho

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

Sofia Coppola

MoreStartedThanEncouragingFemale

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Tom Glazer

GoodMeSayMatterWriteThey Say

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

Roberto Azevedo

JobBrazilPrioritizeGlobalHappens

There's a different kind of attitude when you come from Western New York. You work for everything you get, and nothing's really handed to you... You realize good work turns to good things, and that's the edge I always came up with.

Luke Harper

WorkGoodAttitudeNew YorkYouNew

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Douglas Coupland

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Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Christopher Hitchens

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I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.

Anthony Mann

SonGreatManGreat ManKnowWho

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