"Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time."

-- Dave McPherson

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“And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.”
“Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.”
“Success in anything is through happiness.”
“Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.”
“Sometimes when you are standing still and itâ€™s snowing, you think that you hear music. You canâ€™t tell where itâ€™s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we canâ€™t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.”
“In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.”
“I like to consider myself a student of hip hop. There's a certain level of certification and wit and craftsmanship that comes with rapping. As rap progresses - it's a young genre - it's becoming way more mainstream, crossing over to different lanes. I feel like it's losing its essence in a way, because it's getting commercialised. I want to keep it fresh and keep it progressive, but I also want to respect the foundation of what rap is about.”
“Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 10, 2011

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