#racket

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#life #public #public life #racket #want

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good. ↗

— Gary Cole

#being #bracket #good #look #lot

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #buy #father #had #interesting

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#full #good #good stories #got #history

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#almost #along #came #college #go

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#because #both #double #first #handed

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. ↗

— John McEnroe

#book #dinosaur #even #example #for example

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#different #different people #different perspectives #ground #help

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#cardboard #copy #cut #graduated #guitars

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money. ↗

— Mickey Cohen

#dressed #glamour #gotten #guys #had