Ping Pong Quotes

• Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

  Boris Johnson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Play

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• I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.

  Thelonious Monk

  Games, Play, Pool

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• It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.

  Seth Godin

  Fun, Trying, Care

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• I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

  Judah Friedlander

  Dark, Black, Belts

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• My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

  Marv Albert

  Strong, Games, Relentless

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with … Marv Albert". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

  Boyd Rice

  Dog, Philosophical, Games

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• Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

  Steve Schirripa

  Dad, Sometimes, Being A Dad

  "Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look". Book by Steve Schirripa, www.today.com. 2013.

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• I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

  Lisa Ling

  Bigs, Ping, Addict

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.

  Steve Reeves

  Motivational, Workout, Nice

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• I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Husband, Memories, Blessed

  "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry". Book by Elizabeth Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you.

  Taeyang

  Wall, Drama, Exhausted

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• Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Mentor, Tables

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

  Ali Liebegott

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

  Andy Pettitte

  Winning, Tennis, Care

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• I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

  David Baldacci

  Player, Wicked, Ping

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• I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Hate, Russia

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1707, e-artnow

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• It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

  Laurie Colwin

  Party, Giving, People

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• I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

  Johnny Galecki

  Play, Ping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Team, Fruition, Initiative

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• London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

  Boris Johnson

  Home, Chinese, World

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• I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

  Kate Spade

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Winning, Victory

  GOLF Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. July 18, 2009.

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• ..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

  Claire LaZebnik

  Mean, Men, Way

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• In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Play, People

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

  Michael Porter

  Moving, Balls, Care

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