Quotes of: Borg Keyword

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Pete Sampras

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Pete Sampras

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Billie Jean King

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Novak Djokovic

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Borges on Writing

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Novak Djokovic

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

Rafael Nadal

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

Rafael Nadal

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

Richard Krajicek

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Ana Ivanovic

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

Zubin Mehta

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

Roger Federer

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

Tatyana Eckstrand

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Ruth Ozeki

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Rohan Bopanna

Lily Sloane: [after having seen the Borg] Definitely not Swedish.

Star Trek: First Contact

Marianne Borg: All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness

Wild Strawberries

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Vernon A. Walters

We were supposed to be heroes.” “There’s no such thing as heroes.” Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup

The Informer