#ring

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#animal #arena #arenas #center #cheering

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks. ↗

— Larry Doby

#being #blacks #bring #going #hard

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#classroom #did #early #education #feedback

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#being #cope #everyday #forest #girlfriend

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #funny #half #i #i am

Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable. ↗

— Apoorve Dubey

#greatness #growth #happiness #inspirational #inspiring-quotes

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas. ↗

— Irene Dunne

#jane #leave #swearing

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition. ↗

— Bette Davis

#billed #day #earned #everyone #recognition

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#avoid #challenging #change #copy #course

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it. ↗

— Miles Davis

#been #comes #gift #hearing #i