Quotes of: Ashes Keyword

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

Lorna Luft

I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

Marion Bartoli

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.

Martina Hingis

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

Rafael Palmeiro

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.

Michael Phelps

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

Michael Phelps

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

Monica Seles

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.

Novak Djokovic

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

Novak Djokovic

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

Caroline Wozniacki

If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.

The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Jimmy Connors

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

Charles A. Lockwood

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

Rafael Palmeiro

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.

Willie Green

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Bob Hayes

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Rio Ferdinand

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

Herschel Walker

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Zygmunt Bauman

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

Rafael Nadal