Racket Quotes

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business, Movies, Humanity

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Butler

War, Lives, Dollars

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
Smedley Butler

War, Nothing, Else

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
Jon Bon Jovi

Another, Mirror, Kid

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
Venus Williams

Improving, Hang

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
Novak Djokovic

Learning, Father, Together

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.
Tom Hanks

Thought, Study, Wait

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Jason Statham

Sports, Play, Used

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
Rick Springfield

Used, While, Tennis

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones

Family, Good, Father

I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
Thomas Beecham

Women, Men, America

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Pete Sampras

Win, Talking, Tennis

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
Gabriela Sabatini

Respect, Through, Tennis

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
Ernst Zundel

Looking, Public, Large

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.
Frank Capra

Whole, Understood, Noticed

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Sarah Vowell

Good, History, Reason

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
David Hackworth

War, Saying, Old

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
Joe Mantegna

Life, Wrong, Public

I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
Norma McCorvey

Good, Money, Women

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
Jerry Pournelle

Business, Writing, Living

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle

Science, America, President

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.
Stefan Edberg

Good, Made, Next

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
Bjorn Borg

Playing, Both, Started

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
Matthew Ashford

Tried, Tennis, Picked

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
Tabitha Soren

Thought, Journalism

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.
Julia Sweeney

Trying, Whole, Off

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Max Weinberg

Family, Rock, Live

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.
Adrian Smith

Cool, Anyone, Tennis

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
Jonathan Pryce

Rock, Beginning, Mirror

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