The World Motivation
I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
“I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.”
— Bobby Riggs · Cradle
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“I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.”
“It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.”
“An old ham like me needs to be on stage.”
“No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.”
“I once played amateur tournament tennis six months without double-faulting.”
“Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.”
“A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.”
“The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.”
“When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.”
“We are gladiators of the third millennium and Rome is the cradle of the gladiators.”
“I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.”
“It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.”