87 Racket Quotes
Following is our list of racket quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about tennis racket.
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Famous Racket Quotes
I'll let the racket do the talking. — John McEnroe
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze
Once in the racket you're always in it. — Al Capone
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. — Al Capone
I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had. — Serena Williams
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. — Darrell Johnson
If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game. Because the streets is a short stop: Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett
I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail! — Stevie Ray Vaughan
One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other. — Jane Kaczmarek
False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc. — Billy Donovan
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. — George Carlin
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. — Fran Lebowitz
I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket. — Anthony Jeselnik
Short Racket Quotes
- Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. — Al Capone
- War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler
- We must take the profit out of war. — Smedley Butler
- I like to let my racket do the talking. — Rod Laver
- I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. — Jason Statham
- Religion is a Snare and a Racket. — Charles Taze Russell
- Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. — Bill Moyers
- We must take the profit out of prejudice. — Coleman Young
- It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket. — Smedley Butler
- Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
War Is A Racket Quotes
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. — Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' — Jesse Ventura
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer. — Coleen Rowley
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it. — Ernest Hemingway
The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. — David Hackworth
War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation. — Madeline Taylor
Tennis Racket Quotes
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. — Pete Sampras
Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away. — Rod Laver
My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting. — Novak Djokovic
One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy. — Ilie Nastase
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. — Michael Bamberger
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. — Rick Springfield
Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that. — Johnny Depp
She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists. — Virginia Wade
I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. — Matthew Ashford
You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket." -Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning — Ellen Schreiber
People Writing About Racket
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Al Capone |
41 | 11611 |
 Smedley Butler |
23 | 947 |
 John McEnroe |
41 | 416 |
 Serena Williams |
195 | 2670 |
 The Notorious B.I.G. |
79 | 3046 |
 Brian Regan |
90 | 604 |
More Racket Quotes
Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope. — Serena Williams
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. — Smedley Butler
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service — Smedley Butler
I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors. — Curtis LeMay
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents. — Smedley Butler
The Ivermectin story completes a picture of the racket our system has become. The media, government, academy, Pharma and Tech teamed up against the people—exacerbating a man-made disaster and demonizing resisters in order to mass-administer a deadly, ineffective, unnecessary shot. — Bret Weinstein
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit. — Smedley Butler
Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care. — Alex Jones
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind. — Mark Haskell Smith
Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches. — Taylor Negron
I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money. — Mickey Cohen
I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket. — Randy Moss
Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then you are against democracy. If you are against Christianity, then you are against God. If you are against trying a can of Old Dr. Quack's Cancer Salve, then you are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die. — H. L. Mencken
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. — Harry Reasoner
Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too. — Jimmy Hoffa
Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking. — Weegee
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room. — Karl Kraus
For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway. — J. K. Rowling
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket." — Christopher McDougall
Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms. — Brad Gilbert
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. — Thomas Beecham
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit. — Anton Chekhov
Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term. — Novak Djokovic
I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time. — Lleyton Hewitt
I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women. — Norma McCorvey
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible. — Alain Robbe-Grillet
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