"I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived through the success of a whole slew of boxers and feel I could invest emotionally and psychologically in their victories, and identify with them in their struggles."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

George Elliott Clarke

#Struggle Quotes #Player Quotes #Tennis Quotes

“In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.”
“Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.”
“Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.”
“There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.”
“Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.”

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