Racket Quotations

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

We must take the profit out of war.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

Obviously he can do about anything with a tennis racket in his hand. But on a given day, hopefully so can I.

She played great today and from the start I was not there. I couldn't feel the ball as well as I would like to. I was not happy with the strings at all. I couldn't get the racket strung the way I wanted it.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

I am totally frustrated. I should have never lost that second set. I changed my racket at 5-1, that was a big mistake.

Her racket is actually fragile -- powerful but fragile,

Today, it was my mistake because we had different balls (than were used in Montreal and Cincinnati). I tried to make it different, my tension for strings was harder here and I tried to make no mistakes because the tension was hard and I had more control. I tried to come back but at 6-5 broke my string. I took my old racket and I lost in the tiebreak. I played really slow, Chela played good today and tried to make winners, and for me, if I play slow I can beat nobody.

I was a little embarrassed to admit how it happened. You would think a racket sport would translate.

Our job is to zero in on where (the pros) want their racket to be and to duplicate that over and over.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket,

With the newer guys it's just simply being able to meet the ball in the center of the racket and directing it over the net. With other guys we go beyond that and start thinking about placement, adjusting the pace and the spin.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

Zach did a great job today. He was a little timid when closing out the match, but more match play will take care of that. Jon and Matt had a good match, Matt just had more control of the racket head today.

Our diamond racket will stay in Belgium for at least another year. Obviously we were looking forward to have Venus once again in our tournament. She has been a key player in the promotion of our event and is incredibly popular in Belgium. But as with other top players, injuries have been putting her back. Fortunately we still have an incredible field with 6 top 10 players.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

I don't think my serve compares to his serve, ... At least you can get a racket on mine.

You come out and you know he will get his aces, ... My question was, what I do when I get my racket on the ball.

What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

I don't mind being called tough since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

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

To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

I like to let my racket do the talking.