Badminton Quotes

• Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

  Aamir Khan

  Play, Dancing, Ballet

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• Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Play, Decision, Wells

  Dmitry Medvedev might not be Russia's great badminton hope after all" by Tom Parfitt, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2011.

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• In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.

  Li Na

  Use, Shoulders, Wrists

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• Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

  Howard Bach

  Thinking, Mentality

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• Please pray & wish me well (in hearing session). All I want is to clear my name and return to the badminton.

  Lee Chong Wei

  Names, Wish, Want

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• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  Saina Nehwal

  Winning, Winning Is Everything, Love Winning

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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• Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.

  Nicklas Bendtner

  Football, Thinking, Tennis

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• One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Guy, One Thing

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2012

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Light, Long

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• Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

  Saina Nehwal

  Cricket, Glamorous

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• When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

  Rob Sheffield

  Sports, School, Wrestling

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.37, Penguin

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• Unlike most youngsters who have school as their second home where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

  Saina Nehwal

  Fun, Home, School

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• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  Saina Nehwal

  Thinking, Ability, Teach

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• I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Lame, Body, Wrists

  Source: gubelette.tumblr.com

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• Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you train day and night for four years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way, haven't you already lost?

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Player, Night

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• Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

  Annie Proulx

  Party, Games, Ordinary

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.

  L. Neil Smith

  Party, Two, Differences

  "Catching Up with L. Neil Smith". Interview with Ari Armstrong, www.freecolorado.com. December 07, 2006.

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• Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Player, Eight

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• We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Art, Believe

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• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

  T. J. Miller

  Writing, Acting, Comedy

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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