Squash Quotes

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

When you're driving, the helmet squashes your hair, so you don't really have a hairstyle. When you get out, you're sweating and your hair is a mess.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.