Top 1200 Davis Cup Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The Ryder Cup is an event people dream about and sometimes it can only happen once.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

The FIFA Confederations Cup is a major event, and a success in this tournament can make a team stronger.

I want to win all sorts of titles and then the World Cup with the Brazilian national team.

Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

To see other teams in the playoffs and battling for the Cup, it's something that gives you a little inspiration.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.

Every league game is like the World Cup. The passion... intense, the desire for points.

I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

I have always felt that promoting somebody else's mistake as a superlative product is not my cup of tea.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that was a very uneven film. I thought the Southern women were so caricatured that it was kind of like 'Harper Valley PTA' or something like that.

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also want to win a Tony. I want to be one of those guys like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr. that crossed all those barriers of entertainment.

I've done quite a few movies, I generally can feel that I'm not right for the role or a general fear if I can pull it off, and him giving that "tag" so to speak gave me the confidence. Like that Miles Davis line, "Don't worry about mistakes, there aren't any." Once you are the part, you're the guy, so you can't not be the guy because you're it.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

For somebody as successful in the Ryder Cup as I am, I don't think it's smart to sit me twice.

This is in the plan which I have for my career and my life, to one day win the Champions League and the World Cup.

Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.

On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Sometimes I forget, then suddenly I find myself thinking, 'God - I won the World Cup, didn't I?'

For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.

To have the chance to work with a World Cup-winning coach is special, and not everybody gets that opportunity.

It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and '60s rock n' roll. Whenever he used to cook, he used to play Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, The Kinks, and the Spencer Davis Group - a lot of really earthy things.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

If you've got an opportunity to improve your squad before a World Cup you must take it.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

This whole quest to win the 2019 World Cup, that was my job when I was director of England cricket.

I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

I still have ambition to captain England into the 2011 World Cup. I'm very keen to do that job.

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

I don't like sitting on the bench even when it was very rare at Hull to rest during cup games.

There is always something new. But to be honest, if I was to score a goal in a World Cup, I don't know what I would do.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

For me, I want to win the World Cup. If that's not the goal then I don't think you should be playing.