Squash Quotes - Page 5

• When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

  Paul Simon

  Life Is Hard, Hard Life, Middle

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• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

  Winning, Definitions, Lost

  "Former Senator Arlen Specter Dies At 82". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

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• Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Broken Spirit, Broken Promises

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• Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

  Bill Toomey

  Sports, Creative, Activity

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• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  Walt Whitman

  Little Things, Hub, Objects

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Hobbies, Littles

  "Half Wollstonecraft, Half LOLcats: Talking with Caitlin Moran". Interview with Sally Errico, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2012.

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• A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Two, Jelly

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use words." "Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to hear them." Toby pulled Josh's hand away. "Are you my new mommy?" Grace's mouth fell open in shock, and Toby giggled at the sight. "Okay, Tiger," Josh said. "You know I love the sound of your laugh, probably more than any sound in the world, but I will squash you like a grape if you say that to one more woman today.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

  Eric Heiden

  Sports, Cycling, Found

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

  Curt Flood

  Sports, Ugly, Great American

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• In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Years, Covering

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• I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Baseball, Simple

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• I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!

  Sandra Cisneros

  Rome, Saws, Wonder

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

  Shauna Niequist

  Art, Fall, Winter

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Shoes, Clubs

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

  Desmond Tutu

  God, People, Heaven

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255, 2004.

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• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Being Positive

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