"Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me."

-- Steffi Graf

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“Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.”
“Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.”
“In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.”
“It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.”
“I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.”
“Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
“Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

Source : Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

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