#yea

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class. ↗

— Victor Salva

#class #could #deal #doing #english

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#always #diversity #fantasy #genre #here

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#book #editing #few #gave #go

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#forever #golfers #hasn #mechanics #swing

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#event #figure #going #had #i

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#couple #far #far away #game #get

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#cup #davis #davis cup #every #i

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. ↗

— George Sand

#altered #changes #completely #day #day to day

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek. ↗

— Roselyn Sanchez

#hayek #i #me #take #thought

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years. ↗

— Ryne Sandberg

#double #grace #mark #play #ten