John Fitzgerald Quotes (48 Quotes)

That city is just looking for an excuse to get together and party. I loved my time there.

We're not finished yet. Obviously we were hoping to be leading after the second day but that's not to be so we have to regroup and get ourselves in the best shape we can for tomorrow.

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

The pressure is always there and this match was decided by a couple of points. It's just a matter of winning the right points at the right time and that's what they did.

Argentina are a mighty strong nation in men's tennis. It's a tough ask but a good challenge.

He's probably the most talented man I've met in a long time.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week's exercise.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan

We had a good conversation and he's very keen to play.

I knew late last night and I was aware that we were going to make an announcement today in regards to it.

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality

We have a wonderful opportunity for the young people and I think they are going to grab it with both hands.

I don't think he'll just go out there just to practice. But I think he would be real good for our defensive backs and receivers alike.

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

It's always an advantage to get here early and to hit a lot of balls in these conditions. But when you win matches deep into a tournament, like Max did in Miami, that gives you a different type of advantage, too.

Anytime when someone who is given the death penalty says that they want to drop their appeals and be executed, it may well come to pass.

We're all feeling pretty good about ourselves right now. It was one hell of a match.

The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a fourth person.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation. Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

I have played 11 years of Davis Cup and I think once I won a fifth rubber so it doesn't come around that often. It is a special moment for Chris.

Show me a man who plays a good game of golf and I'll show you a man who is neglecting something - John F Kennedy

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.

I'm not sure if you can pick favorites, I think it's a fine line sometimes. This is a tight match and I think Belarus obviously punch a lot higher than their weight in Davis Cup competition.

I believe that will cause a delay.

We've done a lot of things to get across the message that the city center is not just a place to buy things. It's not just a commercial place. It's a place where you come in and sit on the boardwalk, have a cup of coffee and look around you.

He wants to play, that's genuine. His record speaks for itself. I don't know if there has been a player in the modern game in Australia who has played as much as him -- I would assume that his record in terms of playing and being available is better than anybody.

Most people are surprised that anyone would make a movie about baseball in Ireland. But I think they are even more surprised when they find out it's a true story.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear

For any of those who haven't seen him play live, it is something special,

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

The 50,000-foot view is just that we were delayed in filing some forms and as a public company, we have to file so the Ontario Securities Commission sent us notices and we've been working on it,

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.

It's standard practice for us to assume that our opponents will have their best players available to play in any tie were involved in, and we will plan and prepare accordingly.

If someone wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Now the trumpet summons us again- not as a call bear arms, though arms we need-not as a call to battle, though embattled we are- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulat

Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree, and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion

Sometimes these Davis Cup doubles are on a knife's edge, especially when it's a 1-1 scenario, it shows how pivotal they are, but this was a good effort, tough players those two guys. You've got Max ranked three in the world (in doubles) and the other guy's a hell of a hitter of the ball. These are not easy to win. That was a very good performance.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. Its very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.