"If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen."

-- John McEnroe

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“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952, 1959.
“What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say”
“Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.”
“Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.”

Source : Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."
“I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.”

Source : Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2014.
“Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.”
“You cant gain something, without giving something in return”
“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”

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