Slam Quotes by Simona Halep, William Raspberry, Ivan Lendl, Andre Agassi, Samantha Stosur, Mats Wilander and many others.
You gotta try something people ain’t seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don’t show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other.
As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that’s not a happy thing – I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that’s the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It’s worth it.
The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It’s not going to sink in for a while.
If I ever get the chance to win a grand slam, I think only then will I feel the feeling of being really, really happy.
If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, ‘I want Serena in the final.’
There’s no doubt in my mind that ‘Slam’ is going to be huge. It’s a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
I think probably Wimbledon is my best chance to win a slam.
The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It’s not for us. It’s maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don’t slam the door.
Miloslav Mecir – best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible… and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.
I feel a lot of confidence from that memory, playing final first time in Grand Slam. But also I always think that I could play a little better in a final. I lost straight sets. I didn’t do well.
I got to one Grand Slam final, and that’s what you shoot for as a player.
It’s always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
Of course it’s one of my goals to win another grand slam. Wimbledon was great – so if it’s Wimbledon again, that’s fine – but I think I have the game to win the other grand slams as well.
Everyone is fighting like crazy because it’s the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I’d try it out.
Any time you enter a tournament before a slam, there’s always the possibility you’ll be arriving late. It’s a very good problem to have.
I’m pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn’t practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all over the place. He does it by practicing free throws. That’s the attitude I take: You don’t get better at running by doing everything but running. You get better by running.
To be able to hold all four majors – the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA – all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.
When you walk through that door of opportunity you don’t slam it shut behind you.
Being No. 1 is great, but it is even better to win a Grand Slam.
Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.
Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I’m happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he’s a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.
Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.
And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.
If you get to No 1, people say, ‘But you didn’t win a Grand Slam.’ You cannot win, because you can say the same the other way round. In my opinion, both are really important. If you want to finish your career really happy with what you did, you have to win both.
My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.
I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don’t want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, ‘You’re one of my favorite actors,’ rather than ‘You’re one of my favorite character actors.’ It sounds like a slam.
It doesn’t always work out that you win a tournament and then a Grand Slam, but I’m happy to have the confidence.
When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it’s going to be very important for me.
Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.
I know in the back of my head I have a Grand Slam win, which definitely takes a lot off of me, a big load off.
Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
The Republican party is not perfect, but if you put this party’s record of achievements on one side of a balance scale and the Democrat‘s record on the other, the Republican side would slam the table.
Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.
It’s unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don’t have a great record in finals, but I’m getting closer to .500, which is nice.
It’s a Grand Slam. Everyone is playing to win, playing for themselves at the best level. They’ve prepared their best.
People don’t understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people’s faces and say, ‘This is my priority, and you can’t depend on me to help you.’ I was never good at that.
On Death Valley, I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They’re flying around and I’m doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It’s just fun.
When they [court announcers] say, ‘This is the world No. 2,’ it just doesn’t sound right to me because either I’m No. 1 or I’m a grand slam champion. I’m not world No. 2. I just don’t like the ring of it when I’m introduced on court because I’ve been up there for so, so long.
It’s a joke how tough it is to win a Slam.
If the day ever comes when I am world No. 1, then great, but for me, the biggest dream was to win a slam, and I did it.
When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I’ve always wanted to experience that.
I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that’s to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I enjoy that challenge. Every year it comes around, I get excited to try to conquer that opportunity. I love it.
Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.
Almost every Grand Slam, I’m in second week, which is pretty positive for me.
Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for ‘the truth.’ But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.
I’m not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It’s a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.
I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.
I don’t care when people use the term ‘one-Slam wonder‘ with me.
When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.