"There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it."

-- Amelie Mauresmo

#Careers Quotes #Tennis Quotes #Given Quotes

“I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.”
“I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.”
“You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.”
“We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.”
“People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.”

Source : Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.
“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”
“Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country's honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.”
“The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.”

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