Quotes on Court

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

Author: Floyd Abrams

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

Author: Victoria Abril

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

Author: Andre Agassi

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Author: Andre Agassi

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

Author: Namie Amuro

I just want to get on the court.

Author: Carmelo Anthony

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

Author: John Ashcroft

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

Author: James Baker

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

Author: Judy Biggert

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

Author: Nellie Bly

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

Author: Pat Brown

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

Author: James Buckley

If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

Author: Jack Cade

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Author: Vince Carter

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

Author: Tom Clark

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

Author: Morris Cohen

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Author: Pierre Corneille

The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

Author: Jim Courier

The judge gave Michael permission to issue a statement. I think Jackson went way outside the bounds of the judge's intent. It will be interesting to see what the judge does tomorrow in court.

Author: Catherine Crier

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Author: Clarence Darrow

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline."

Author: Alan Dershowitz

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Author: Phil Donahue

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Author: William Douglas

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Author: Sam Ervin

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Author: Fred Fielding

More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

Author: Guy Forget

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Author: Ruth Ginsburg

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

Author: Harold Greene

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Author: Dashiell Hammett

Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

Author: Daniela Hantuchova

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

Author: Dennis Hastert

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Author: Patty Hearst

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

Author: Anita Hill

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.

Author: Martina Hingis

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

Author: Martina Hingis

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Author: Oliver Holmes

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Author: Laurence Housman

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.

Author: Saddam Hussein

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

Author: Anne Hutchinson

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Author: Patricia Ireland

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Author: Goran Ivanisevic

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

Author: Michael Jackson

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Author: Anthony Kennedy

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Author: Jason Kidd

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

Author: Dennis Kozlowski

Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin.

Author: Richard Krajicek

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

Author: Richard Krajicek

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

Author: Richard Krajicek

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Author: Richard Krajicek

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

Author: Richard Land

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges.

Author: Joe Lockhart

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

Author: Charles Manson

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

Author: Amelie Mauresmo

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

Author: Norma McCorvey

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

Author: Donella Meadows

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

Author: Robert Menendez

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.

Author: Helen Moody

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Author: Ralph Neas

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Author: Eleanor Norton

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

Author: Rod Parsley

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Author: Rod Parsley

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

Author: James Patterson

The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now.

Author: Timothy Pawlenty

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.

Author: Mary Pierce

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

Author: Harold Pinter

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

Author: Harold Pinter

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Author: William Rehnquist

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

Author: William Rehnquist

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

Author: Rick Ross

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Author: Mike Rounds

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

Author: Karl Rove

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

Author: Gabriela Sabatini

It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.

Author: Pete Sampras

We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

Author: Jay Sekulow

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

Author: Jay Sekulow

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Author: Jay Sekulow

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

Author: O. Simpson

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

Author: Eddie Slovik

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Author: William Taft

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Author: Charles Talleyrand

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Author: Nina Totenberg

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

Author: Arthur Waite

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

Author: Robert Walpole

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

Author: Mercy Warren

We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.

Author: Ryan White

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

Author: Sue Wicks

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

Author: James Wilson

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

Author: John Yoo