Slam Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dream, Opportunity, Thinking

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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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• We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Winning, Records

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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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• But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

  Rick Bayan

  Fun, Ambition, Garden

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• My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Care, Way, Paint

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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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• It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

  Serena Williams

  Belts, Tournaments

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• When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Persistence, Doors, Voice

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Education, Writing, Opportunity

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• God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.23, A&C Black

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• perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.

  Henry Rollins

  Heart, Night, Thinking

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• The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.

  Richard Siken

  Monsters, Alive, Body

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• I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

  Dave Barry

  Basketball, Past, Eight

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• I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke,
  Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.

  Rakim

  Rap, Hip Hop, Done

  Song: I Ain't No Joke

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• I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

  Maria Sharapova

  Sports, Morning, Careers

  "Maria Sharapova Presser: Winning The French, It’s The Most Unique Moment I’ve Experienced In My Career" by Tom Gainey, www.tennis-x.com. June 9, 2012.

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• There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.

  Jennie Runk

  Hatred, Being Different, Body Types

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• While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.

  James MacDonald

  Doors, Hands, Promise

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.37, Moody Publishers

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

  John Wayne

  Bangs, Looks, Half

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• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  Arthur Ashe

  Children, Pain, Play

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