I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
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Related You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none. MARAT SAFIN If he get his health together and is playing well in the summer, certainly I will talk to him. Any t... PATRICK MCENROE Federer is a very complete player able to change his game plan at any time. PAT CASH Anybody that's playing Roger Federer right now is going to have a very hard time. GREG RUSEDSKI I can remember watching Federer win Grand Slams on TV when I was a kid trying to put myself in his s... DENIS SHAPOVALOV When I looked at the men's draw, I thought, 'This draw was much better than we ever expected to get ... ANNE WORCESTER There are some tactics you can use against (Federer), RICHARD GASQUET If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to... DOUGLAS BRUNT I think the day will come when, for example, you will be able to watch Phil Mickelson from the first... DAVID HILL Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the ga... PETE SAMPRAS I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I think it's the best thing for them, playing in honor of Brad, and I think they are focused complet... KATHY BATES He was in Switzerland at the time and was coming home for a short period of time. I contacted him an... DICK AYOTTE Somehow, Andy has to turn it around so that instead of chasing Federer, he's making Federer beat him... ANDY RODDICK Failures can happen at any time, as long as you stay strong you will always be fine. Deep down in yo... SAM OLIVER MCKAY Yesterday I was on the court with Roger Federer, so I can bring something like that or a conversatio... LUKE JENSEN Last time I was starstruck was when I met Roger Federer. He is one of the few athletes that I really... HENRIK LUNDQVIST I would have loved to have met Roger Federer. KATIE TAYLOR Arrogance never takes you anywhere. If you're arrogant and try to subvert your subordinates just rem... HIMMILICIOUS If you are confirmed, you will essentially disappear from public view. This hearing will, in some wa... GRETA GARBO You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 1... BOBBY ORR In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. WILL ROGERS Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does tha... RICHARD KRAJICEK They should speak to their sponsors and tell them that every fourth year they will be playing in Sou... GERALD MAJOLA Today I felt like for the first time I was the better player on the court (against Federer), and tha... IVAN LJUBICIC Speaking about Roger Federer: "The best way to beat him would be to hit him over the head with a rac... ROD LAVER Federer is the No. 1 in tennis, and if I meet him in the Masters Cup, I'll play a world No. 1. It wi... RAFAEL NADAL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I think we will be able to handle the feeling of playing at the Breslin because we played at the Pal... CALEB SIMONS Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few yea... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca... LENA DUNHAM On a national level, I would say it's down and it's only down for a short period of time. If you loo... DAVE NEAL It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like ... MA LONG It will be a much tougher game this time [than in December]. Everybody was kind of feeling their way... ED SENNETT I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau... LEMONY SNICKET It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire. RICHARD KRAJICEK Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great... RUSSEL H. CONWELL Roger Federer is stylish. BJORN BORG We've been there before. It's tough, but Andre Agassi is a draw unlike any other. BILL RAPP Russ and Brad came in on the Monday and asked if there was any time to practice at the club. GORD MINK I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year... MICHEL PATINI I had a couple of discussions with him late last year, early this year. Any time he says he's intere... PATRICK MCENROE Spring Training is about playing, and we will be playing, so I don't think it will affect us that wa... ADRIAN GONZALEZ If you look at Gilbert and Sullivan, they were played to be the English equivalents of Jacques Offen... VINCE LIOTTA If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord b... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful ... FRANK DEFORD For the first time, we enter the year with more than 100 international players on the tour. We repre... CAROLYN BIVENS There's a pad underneath the carpet. It would definitely have to be changed it if was wet, no way ar... STEVE SCOTT That would be great. I think any time the fans and the young players themselves, especially, can get... JACK LIND Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. ... EOIN COLFER My hero is Roger Federer. SAINA NEHWAL But, at least what we did to Guatemala shows that it can work-they are both great players. We have t... LEO BEENHAKKER It's the same thing with Andy [Roddick] and Brad [new coach Brad Gilbert]. [Farmer] gives you that s... BOB BRYAN Roger Federer is the best player in the world. He wins everything, RAFAEL NADAL When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria... STEPHEN KING If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least ... JOHN MCENROE I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, ... HANNAH SIMONE I'll be happy for every at-bat that I get. You can't do anything without a chance. The more playing ... JEFF FIORENTINO If he did want to go in that inflation targeting direction, it would be a radical change at the Fed.... ANN HURLEY From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name o... JIM MORRIS It will be great to have a place that everyone can worship together at one time. IRENE BALLASTY It's terrible to get those comments, ... but at the same time, I am not 17 anymore. I have put in my... ANDRE BENJAMIN Even if no one can love and be wise at the same time, but they can flirt and be wise at the same tim... VIKRANT PARSAI I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be ... WILLIE NELSON And in the beginning of the season, we decided that that was one of the things we knew ... that it h... THERESA ADAMS You can definitely say, 'great player' of Gilbert now. He does what great ones do, in practice, afte... JARVIS HAYES Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and ... SARAH CHALKE All this was clear to me, and I was glad and at peace. Then it is as if someone is saying to me, "Se... LEO TOLSTOY I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ... JOHN GREEN It wasn't him at all, obviously it was the coach and I who didn't see eye to eye. I was a healthy sc... MARC SAVARD You will never see Jana flinch. When it's tough and the game is on the line, she will always be play... GWEN WEATHERFORD The kicker was that I was to be audited at least once a year, or at any time they think I need to be... DAVID NEFF He was brilliant for Argentina. I remember at half-time everyone was saying that nobody could get an... WAYNE ROONEY At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be publ... WALTER MOSLEY Use common sense. You can have a great time and be safe at the same time. LORI REYNERSON It will be fun playing with my friends. I will be playing with a lot of good in-state players. My fa... DOMONIC HOPSON I am saying 40% of people in sports are still using performance (enhancing drugs). I think that base... BEN JOHNSON The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I ... TRACIE MILES Day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet th... NICHOLAS SPARKS If you give great players a challenge, those players will do great things. I challenged my players, ... MARK MOONEY At work, we usually have TVs brought in. It's a better excuse when the Miners play. In the past I've... BRYAN STEIN If I get that award, that's good, but I'm trying to get my team ready to make that run come state pl... DAPHNE BROWN I told him I never promise playing time. But unless I missed my guess, [you] would be able to come i... DAVE ROBBINS It's tough not being in the same building, just for communication purposes. The only time I get to s... KYLE TREGONING The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the w... ANDRE RIEU With 17-minute periods, we have learned that it is a long game and that you have to be patient. The ... GREG VANNELLI Anyone who can prove they can run two hours or faster will be right up in the front and will be runn... JEFF GRAVES If people shed a tear at any time during any performance that I do, it shouldn't be because they see... ROBYN ARCHER I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably ... JOHN MCENROE You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a... CHIP AMBRES He's got that big frame that colleges like. I see him as one of those great hybrid players. One who ... DARRYL PHIPPS What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary. DON BRUNELL Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded... AL GROH If you can get everyone in the same room, around the same table at the same time, you can usually fi... HAL DAUB Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from mo... BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI Oh, the bald look? A lot of questions why, and I have a bunch of fun stories to give people. The big... LUKE JENSEN I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the id... CATHERINE CROWE We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn... A.W. TOZER
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DANIEL GILBERT Tomorrow is no man's gift. GILBERT PARKER There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us,... GILBERT PARKER I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami... GILBERT GOTTFRIED I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a... ELIZABETH GILBERT Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ... GILBERT MURRAY Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series. ANDREW GILBERT He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money. ANDREW GILBERT She's been killing it all season and is only getting better. ANDREW GILBERT I first met William McInnes in 1986. ANDREW GILBERT I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o... GILBERT GOTTFRIED A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don... BRANTLEY GILBERT What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it? ELIZABETH GILBERT In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry i... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in lov... ELIZABETH GILBERT Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings... ELIZABETH GILBERT I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide... ELIZABETH GILBERT My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi... ELIZABETH GILBERT Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,... ELIZABETH GILBERT As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to ha... ELIZABETH GILBERT Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ... ELIZABETH GILBERT For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn... ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi... ELIZABETH GILBERT By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al... ELIZABETH GILBERT With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ... ELIZABETH GILBERT every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te... ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing... ELIZABETH GILBERT I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ... ELIZABETH GILBERT My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But... ELIZABETH GILBERT Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw... ELIZABETH GILBERT Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ELIZABETH GILBERT When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don... ELIZABETH GILBERT A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? ELIZABETH GILBERT Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte... ELIZABETH GILBERT The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of... ELIZABETH GILBERT You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei... ELIZABETH GILBERT Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. ELIZABETH GILBERT But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g... ELIZABETH GILBERT