#amen

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#america #believe #child #education #equal

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#always #back #even #i #i can

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. ↗

— Dale Turner

#admit #amends #character #discovered #error

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself. ↗

— John Thorn

#body #called #chores #die #dinner

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #freedom #fundamentalism #i #much

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#amendment #companies #constitutionally #days #expression

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#always #because #being #brought #charges

I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#everybody #feel #feelings #how #i

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification