Racket Quotes

Racket Quote of the day

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

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

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

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

We must take the profit out of war.

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

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

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

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

I'll let the racket do the talking.

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.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

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.

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 like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

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.

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

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

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

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

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.

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

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

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.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

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.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

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

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

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

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 have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.