Olympic Green Tennis

Famous quotes containing the words olympic, green and/or tennis:

    “Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
    —Joseph Heller (b. 1923)

    “There is something I have forgotten, some precious thing.
    I shall be seeking ornaments of ivory,
    I shall be dying for a jungle fruit.

    You do not hear, Bethesda.
    O still green water in a stagnant pool!”
    —Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)

    “Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)