I never faced Pete (Sampras) in a match. I think from watching, his is the best serve ever. And he is the only guy that I would probably not take the bet that he would so often offer in practice -- he's down love-40, says '10 bucks, I still hold serve.' I probably wouldn't even take that against him. So many times he would come back and win. He would just put it on the dime. I also wouldn't take the bets when we were just practicing our serves, he put just a tennis ball can on the other side, and says, 'A hundred bucks for who hits more.' That's not a safe bet with him.


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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an i...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are bor...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
WILLIAM BLAKE
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every harlot was a virgin once.
WILLIAM BLAKE
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful conseq...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Opposition is true friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for...
WILLIAM BLAKE
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE
If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake At Age 10...
EUBIE BLAKE
Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Expect poison from standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE
This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE
What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE