"In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case."

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Source : Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”

Stephen Potter

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Tennis Quotes

“There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.”
“Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.”
“I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.”
“If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!”
“The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.”
“There are definitely some songs you sing and you just know there's something about it - there's kind of a touch on it that's different. But there are no rules to that. Every time, it's a surprise and it's humbling to hear that people are singing the songs in different places and different parts of the world. We're always amazed by that.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

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