Roger Quotes

• [In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

  Jimmy Connors

  Games, Clay, Modern

  "Connors on the men's final" by Jimmy Connors, news.bbc.co.uk. July 9, 2006.

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• If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

  John McEnroe

  Player, Tennis, Wish

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• If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Thinking, Tennis

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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  After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

  Ann Richards

  Inspirational, Dance, Women

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

  Eddie Murphy

  Thumbs Up, Decision, Ass

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

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• When you've got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Your Side, Sides, Loses

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• I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of The Saint. He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.

  Shirley Eaton

  Men, Lovely, Directors

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• Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

  Bum Phillips

  Daylight

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• In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Men, Records

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• I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Fame, Halls

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• Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.

  Toni Nadal

  Pride, Player, Thinking

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• The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Fall, Hair

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• The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Records, Ruth

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• I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

  George Steinbrenner

  Oscars, Economy, Grouches

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• There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

  John Sayles

  Couple, People, Twenties

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• But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

  Gene Siskel

  Believe, Thinking, Essentials

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• I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Lying, Heart

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

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• Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

  Edith Head

  Leather Pants, Two, Clothes

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• Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

  John Lanchester

  Taken, Class, Would Be

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Suffering, Patents

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• Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Block, Player

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• Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.

  Joseph Losey

  Red, Hollywood, Ginger

  Joseph Losey, Michel Ciment (1985). “Conversations with Losey”, Methuen Publishing

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• I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

  Anthony Braxton

  Teenager, Guy, Kind

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• Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

  David Willetts

  Men, Great Men, Speculation

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