Racket Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Racket Quotes from famous persons: Sarah Vowell, Garbine Muguruza, Max Boot, Douglas Brunt, Mary Pilon. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Racket Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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

I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn’t played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn’t the most popular sport in Venezuela.

Garbine Muguruza

You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket – I nominate 1996, the year Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created Fox News Channel to monetize right-wing outrage – but there is no doubt it has long since passed that point.

Max Boot

A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy.

Douglas Brunt

I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.

Mary Pilon

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

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

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

Frank Capra

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.

Gael Monfils

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.

Jack Sock

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

David Hackworth

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent‘s racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Sloane Stephens

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

Adrian Smith

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.

Gene Weingarten

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

Tim Henman

This whole celebrity racket, it’s not really my bag. I don’t really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I’m an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don’t know how to be that.

John C. Reilly

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

I let my racket do the talking.

Garbine Muguruza

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

Sofia Kenin

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

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

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

Julia Sweeney

It’s not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had – the rejection of an illustrator‘s life is less penetrating than the rejection of an actor’s life. So I was able to manage that. But all the while, I still nursed that old dream of being an actor.

Michael Emerson

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

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

Smedley Butler

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.

Orson Bean

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.

Steve Albini

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.

Dana Loesch

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.

Jacob Weisberg

I’ll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

I finally got help after a tennis match with my wife. I couldn’t hear her across the net. She finally smashed her racket against a rock. That got my attention. I didn’t know I was going deaf, I thought people were talking too softly.

Lorne Greene

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

Tim Henman

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.

Ben Foster

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

Jennifer Brady

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.

John McEnroe

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.

Marion Bartoli

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

Nick Tosches

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

Lleyton Hewitt

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

Venus Williams

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Smedley Butler

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

Jason Statham

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.

Rod Laver

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

Mats Wilander

We will eliminate the drug racket from Punjab.

Gurpreet Ghuggi

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

Ana Ivanovic

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

Matthew Ashford

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.

Victoria Pendleton

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Al Capone

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.

Smedley Butler

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

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.

Petra Kvitova

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.

Tullian Tchividjian

I’m in the wrong racket if I didn’t want a public life.

Joe Mantegna

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

Frances Tiafoe

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