I have been….moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.

Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn’t happen, but even my coaches have told me that it’s sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

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.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

If you watch Dominic Thiem and Naomi Osaka, the way the ball comes off the racket is totally different.

…to make the world safe for democracy.

I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major–General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

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

War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can’t resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

Growing up I wasn’t the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

I’m not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There’s no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country‘s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

You have to be realistic. I’d love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don’t stand a chance.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn’t buy any balls. We really didn’t have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.

Being from the Midwest, everyone knows I take pride in representing the U.S. and to have my own racket and bag is really nice.

No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents.

Looking back, in comparison, there wasn’t that much that you could do with a wooden racket. In my day, the matches were certainly much less demanding physically.

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

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.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

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.

Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice – registry offices, ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ the disposable diaper – is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

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.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

The earth is speaking to us, but we can’t hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then – maybe – the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

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

I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don’t need much around me. I’m easy don’t need a lot of racket.

Most people know me for U.S. Open, right? And during U.S. Open, I didn’t show any emotions most of the time. But then after that, I did show – well, in my opinion, it was a lot of emotions. I got upset, and then I threw my racket or stuff like that.

Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can read as many papers as they want for free, and sending donations is their free will. Why Elsevier cannot work like this, I wonder?

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

Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, ‘Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.’ Sadly, not the same results.

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

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

I’ll let the racket do the talking.

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope…and that’s all I had.

Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer —- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think – Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You’re Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Make no mistake, shoes are very important, almost as important as the racket. You need to feel comfortable; you need to be supported by the shoes.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything’s a racket.

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I’ve put in.

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.

There was a line call that didn’t look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.

A professional notices any small change to their racket, whether it’s something a bit different to the grip, the strings or the frame.

I wasn’t into any other toys. I always liked to play with balls and with a racket.

I was blacklisted and overnight my TV appearances dried up. Ed Sullivan called to cancel my appearance and said he‘d help me when he could, and a year later he did. Only a few wackos wanted the blacklist. It was a protection racket.

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society – violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that’s just for starters.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

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.

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book ‘War is a Racket.’

You seem a lot like me,” he said. “You don’t gawk at me like I’m a freak.” “I’ll kick anyone who does.” “I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket.” –Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country…but the profits…skyrocket.

People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play – the fluff stuff.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row – didn’t miss a single one.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

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.

We must take the profit out of war.

I’m furious about the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

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

I let my racket do the talking.

I’m one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That’s how I started.

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people’s consciousness, the people’s conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen–this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

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

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

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

I don’t mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it’s the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If you live in America, you don’t have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

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.

To Serve and Protect…”- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

Don’t do anything to upset the victimhood apple cart, because then young women may want to think for themselves, and the entire racket of feminism ran by women who butter their bread by playing Chicken Little to the subsequent generation would be penniless.

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

I like to let my racket do the talking.

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You’re Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry‘s best-kept secrets.

I broke all my rackets. I didn’t have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don’t like these rackets.

Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it’s a power nap. On the strong ends, it’s a giant battery, and that battery doesn’t run out.

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.

Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It’s a treat to travel without your racket bag.

The day I’m not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

I’m not really the kind of person that wanted this kind of big attention everywhere. But on the other side, I’m glad that children are picking up a racket and they have an idol in myself.

If anything, you just let your racket talk – there’s no reason for you to talk if your racket can.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa‘s highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

I’m not an activist. I’m trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn’t believe what a racket they make in my room.

Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become ‘a racket’, and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths.

A professional’s racket is such a personal thing, and it’s the tool of your trade.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

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.

These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren’t really free. They’re just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It’s really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

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.