Pancho Gonzales Quotes

“The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.”

“Racism is a big problemCreated by small minds”

“The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.”

“Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets.”

“The well of knowledge will never run dryAs long as you have the wisdom to seek and the courage to try”

“Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.”

“But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")”

“You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!”

“May I collect you, Rini?—” he said, softly pulling our lips apart. “As mine?”

“The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.”