Top 179 Racket Quotes & Sayings

It was not until I got sponsored at 12 that I finally owned a racket.

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

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

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

I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's what an artist does," but there ain't too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn't profit, would find an easier hustle. It's a racket now, like everything else, but we're in a capitalistic country - everything's a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious.

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

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

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

Who are the governing bodies to say what is a good and a bad behaviour? I think that's unacceptable, even from an ethical point of view. I don't think anyone on this planet should be able to point at people and say this. For example, if it's not dangerous for other people, you should be allowed to break a racket. It's my racket, it's my problem.

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

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.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

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

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.

I let my racket do the talking.

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

One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.

War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service

I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

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

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.

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

Once in the racket you're always in it.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

We will eliminate the drug racket from Punjab.

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.

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

Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

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

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

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

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

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

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

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.

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.

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.

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

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.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I like to let my racket do the talking.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

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

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

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

I'll let the racket do the talking.

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.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.