Top 55 Racket Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Racket Quotes from famous people such as Mark Cavendish, Alexandra Elbakyan, Novak Djokovic, Naomi Osaka, Smedley Butler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Track and road cycling are very different things. It is easy to look at them both as cycling but going from the road to the track is like asking Andy Murray to play squash: yes, it’s a racket sport like tennis, but it’s not the same.
Mark Cavendish
Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can read as many papers as they want for free, and sending donations is their free will. Why Elsevier cannot work like this, I wonder?
Alexandra Elbakyan
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
Most people know me for U.S. Open, right? And during U.S. Open, I didn’t show any emotions most of the time. But then after that, I did show – well, in my opinion, it was a lot of emotions. I got upset, and then I threw my racket or stuff like that.
Naomi Osaka
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
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
Smedley Butler
If you watch Dominic Thiem and Naomi Osaka, the way the ball comes off the racket is totally different.
Jennifer Brady
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
I’m one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.
Lleyton Hewitt
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything’s a racket.
Nick Tosches
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
Thomas Beecham
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
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
Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.
Mats Wilander
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
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
People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
Tim Henman
I let my racket do the talking. That’s what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Pete Sampras
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 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
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.
Harry Reasoner
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
Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.
Craig Brown
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
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
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book ‘War is a Racket.’
Jesse Ventura
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.
Stefan Edberg
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
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
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 grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n’ roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
Jonathan Pryce
I was blacklisted and overnight my TV appearances dried

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’ll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket… the least understood and the least noticed.
Frank Capra
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
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
Gabriela Sabatini
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 an activist. I’m trying to get off the whole atheist racket.
Julia Sweeney
It was not until I got sponsored at 12 that I finally owned a racket.
Frances Tiafoe
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Jason Statham
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.
Tabitha Soren
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 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’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
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
Jon Bon Jovi
I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.
Mats Wilander
With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa’s highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.
Don Yaeger
With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.
Mario Andretti
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
I wasn’t into any other toys. I always liked to play with balls and with a racket.
Sofia Kenin
Lyrics are my racket; music is play – the fluff stuff.
Cass McCombs
I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.
Sloane Stephens