Slam Quotes - Page 7

• We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

  Walter Wangerin

  Men, Doors, Mistress

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• Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

  Irving Stone

  Running, Reading, Home

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• Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• Sometimes I get drunk and I get into arguments with taxi drivers. And I get out the cab and I slam the door. That's not the way to win an argument with a taxi driver. The way to win is you get out of the cab and you leave the door open. And then he has to step out and come around and close that door. And while he's doing that, I'm on the other side opening the other doors-and we just go around and around and around, and I got my own Benny Hill situation going on in life.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Winning, Doors

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• The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.

  Mickey Rourke

  Sports, Hurt, Wrestling

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

  Flavia Pennetta

  Winning, Thinking, Twenties

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• But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, Light, Doors

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• To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Winning, Mind, Shapes

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

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• Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

  Mary Pierce

  Winning, Expectations, Stuff

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• Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

  Jake Holmes

  Musician, Way

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• Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry.  Fear never saved a marriage or a business.  Courage did that.  Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that.  But fear itself?  Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors.  Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Faith, Country

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

  Jenji Kohan

  Depressing, Drama, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

  Andy Roddick

  Winning, Would Be, Said

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• Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Fine, Terrible

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• The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Mean, Gay

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• I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.

  Rory McIlroy

  Careers, Feelings, Three

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• He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

  Nonito Donaire

  Running, Motivation, Home

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• Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

  Li Na

  Winning, Age, Stills

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• Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Real, Winning

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• I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there.' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before.

  Roger Federer

  Mean, Play, Gone

  "US Open 2014 – Roger Federer: 'The difference between 142mph and 147mph, there's none really. Once you pass the 135 everything is just really fast'". www.ubitennis.net. August 30, 2014.

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• We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

  Caity Lotz

  Doors, House, Wire

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• On Death Valley, I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  Caity Lotz

  Fun, Jumping, Guy

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Caity Lotz". Esquire Interviwe, www.esquire.com. January 14, 2015.

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• I'm going to build my own slam.

  Dan Cummins

  My Own

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• I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Thinking, Wind, Miracle

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

  Larry Wilmore

  Jesus, Mean, Sunday

  "Larry Wilmore on Race, Politics, and Mormonism". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 24, 2012.

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