#aye

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis. ↗

— Chris Evert

#emotional #energies #even #lot #mental

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. ↗

— Chris Evert

#certainly #giving #player #relationships #self-absorbed

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#finished #had #here #i #i wish

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#call #everything #guards #had #i

Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#everybody #goal #player #ring #whether

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#because #community #countries #deal #definitely

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. ↗

— David Brainerd

#divine #employed #fill #hands #heart

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar. ↗

— John Fahey

#anybody #began #guitar #hand #i

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#best #chance #consider #getting #i

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#best #could #ever #game #i