#layer

For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#four #got #grand #grand slams #had

I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#current #future #i #i am #know

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#goes #here #makes #player #question

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer. ↗

— Curt Flood

#doing #here #i #i want you #know

I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#humor #rivalry #school-rivalries #school-spirit #stratford

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. ↗

— William Gaddis

#birth #computer #entire #grandfather #i

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#i #know #player #pretty #pretty good

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players. ↗

— Bert Campaneris

#going #good #had #i #king

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#been #experience #final #finals #i

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #called #i