Slam Quotes - Page 5

• And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Strong, People, Might

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• This year its just about winning the big matches because if youre going to get into the top 20 then youve got to do well at the Masters Series and the grand slams. I dont have any ranking points to defend for the first few months of the year so if I do well over the next few weeks then Ive got a chance of doing it.

  Andy Murray

  Winning, Years, Next

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• I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on.

  Andy Murray

  Winning, Tennis, Guy

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• I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.

  Annie Dillard

  Light, Tree, Vision

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.36, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

  Pete Sampras

  Taken, Winning, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

  Roger Federer

  Long, Champion, Sound

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• Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Funny Things, Trying, Way

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• Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little bit of luck early, you get through those opening matches and you never know what could happen.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Luck, Different, Needs

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• You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Priorities, Titles, Finals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

  Richard Hastings

  Halloween, Trends, Spending

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• I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

  Ernest Cline

  Self Esteem, Guy, Champion

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

  Kurt Angle

  Names, Giving, Mind

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

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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• When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Opportunity, Done, Doorways

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• I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

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• I'm pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn't practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all over the place. He does it by practicing free throws. That's the attitude I take: You don't get better at running by doing everything but running. You get better by running.

  Chris Solinsky

  Basketball, Running, Attitude

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• Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fun, Spring, War

  "Fictional character: Scarlett". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

  Daniel Nestor

  Success, Nice, Winning

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• I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Records, World, Proud

  Jonny Wilkinson (2011). “Jonny: My Autobiography”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

  Robbie Q. Telfer

  Thinking, Competition, Chicago

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• When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

  Michelle Obama

  Opportunity, Doors, Behind You

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• How many slams in an old screen door? 
  Depends how loud you shut it. 
  How many slices in a bread? 
  Depends how thin you cut it. 
  How much good inside a day? 
  Depends how good you live 'em. 
  How much love inside a friend? 
  Depends how much you give 'em.” 
  ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein
  “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

  Stephanie Klein

  Friendship, Real Friends, Cutting

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• You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.'

  Paris Reidhead

  Jesus, Keys, Hands

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• We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

  Richard L. Evans

  Thinking, Doors, Bridges

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• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

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