I did not find in the tennis world any part in which I was welcome.

The player who has no confidence in himself, no belief in his game, has already lost the match.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Come and take them.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

-- The British prime minister whose leadership during World War II embodied national defiance against Nazi Germany

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-- The American general who commanded in the Pacific War and oversaw Japan's postwar occupation

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

-- America's most aggressive World War II general, whose Third Army's lightning advance across France in 1944 demonstrated that speed and audacity in exploitation could collapse enemy resistance faster than methodical advance (1885-1945). Patton believed he

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

-- Born in Clarksville