I never start anything ‘I want to be No. 1. I want to win Grand Slam.’ For me, no. It’s always step by step. The only thing I want to do, it’s to push the limit.
Now I can say I’m a Grand Slam champion, and it sounds really crazy.
Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can’t wait to slam the doors shut.
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can’t let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
All of a sudden, it wasn’t quite good enough to make the fourth round of a Grand Slam, when my whole life before that it was an incredible achievement and something that I had only done a couple of times.
I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I’d done it all.
Winning a Grand Slam is not something I’ll think about.
My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
The guy comes up to the plate, there’s always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
I like to stand and bang with people. If they mess up, I’m gonna slam them.
This is just a ‘Boom!’ of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.
It doesn’t matter who’s under the basket, I’m going to try to slam or block the shot.
Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn’t expect it at just 19 years old.
A person gets pushed down; they think they’re being ‘body-slammed.’ There’s really not any certain thing – that came from more fake wrestling – you know, ‘the body slam,’ being picked up in the air and thrown to the ground. It’s all in someone’s interpretation of what someone thinks a ‘body slam’ really is.
I think NFT is a grand slam.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
I do MMA, but I feel like a pro wrestler at heart. That’s why I fight the way I fight in MMA. That’s why I slam people and stuff around.
It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that’s Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.
I never dreamed to win a Grand Slam. It was never a dream because, for me, it was way too far.
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We’ve got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it’s disrespectful. I didn’t come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock.
If I’m the promoter and I’ve got a fighter named ‘Rampage’ who likes to slam people and knock them out, the last thing I would do is put him in a fight with someone who’s good at holding people down.
I think, ya know, he’s called out a few WWE Superstars; I wouldn’t mind taking a crack at Conor McGregor, and he’s, like, 165 pounds, 185 pounds soaking wet. So, I would like to slam him on his head a few times.
In sprint car wrecks, just slam your head against a table a couple times and that’s probably what it feels like. You get whiplash, all that stuff.
My whole life, I’ve been working really hard, and I can say I’m a grand slam champion.
I like the Slam Dunk contest when it’s good.
It doesn’t matter the way you’re playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn’t change anything.
When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
Almost every Grand Slam, I’m in second week, which is pretty positive for me.
If you’ve ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, ‘What Teachers Make,’ is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, ‘Let me tell you what really makes me angry.’
Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn’t feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that’s a grand slam.
All too often, I will see people on the left slam Trump for the way he treats or talks about other people. Then those same individuals – sometimes even in the same breath – will go on to say even worse things about the people who voted for him.
Because I’ve won one Grand Slam title, I feel like I have a good chance to win more.
Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald’s and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
I think probably Wimbledon is my best chance to win a slam.
I believe I have quality, and that’s why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.
Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
The Republican party is not perfect, but if you put this party’s record of achievements on one side of a balance scale and the Democrat’s record on the other, the Republican side would slam the table.
When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.
Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It’s a big win. You can say it’s more, you can say it’s less, you can say it’s equal. It’s very much up there.
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and… I was 24 or 25, and I’d slam dance in the pit.
Long-term, I want to capture the WWE championship. I want to be a grand slam champion.
I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.
I certainly enjoy quite a few times the taste of the snow as I slam my face a few times in the snow trying to ski and trying impress people.
The most special Slam is Wimbledon, of course. But where I feel the best is Melbourne. And you’re happy that you’re playing. When you get to the middle of the season, everything is week after week, and it’s all routine. But when it’s Melbourne in January, you are fresh and you want to play. It’s nice.
Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.
I’m not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It’s a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.
I’ve always said that winning a Grand Slam title is what is most important.
Oh, my God, I don’t think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.
We did some cool wire work in ‘The Pact’ – they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
If I’m going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Being No. 1 is great, but it is even better to win a Grand Slam.
I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.
Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.
I want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.
I got to one Grand Slam final, and that’s what you shoot for as a player.
I’d rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn’t sound too good.
I don’t really want to fight the real big boys, because I noticed that I tried to pick Ishii up at the end of the fight, I was trying to go for a slam and I was like, ‘This dude is too big.’
Any time you enter a tournament before a slam, there’s always the possibility you’ll be arriving late. It’s a very good problem to have.
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
It’s in the Hawks’ DNA to win one, so I want to be a part of the Hawks’ DNA and the Hawks’ lineage of guys who have won a Slam Dunk Championship.
I’m aware people will think I’ve had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they’ll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I’m no good.
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