The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets…

I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how…

— Madison Keys

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

— Al Capone

I did sleep with tennis rackets when I was little.

— Andrey Rublev

Yes, I hit with heavy top-spin, but when you look at the little rackets I played with, the Maxply Dunlop, you had to hit…

— Rod Laver

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

— Brad Gilbert

My mom used to play, so she had rackets around the house. We hit on the garage door for a little while, and then…

— Jack Sock

Before I was 12 years old, I broke six or seven rackets, which is a lot.

— Aryna Sabalenka

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I…

— Nikolay Davydenko

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

— George Orwell

He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to…

— Frank McCourt

“For many years South Africa was occupied primarily by Dutch farmers known as Boers who had first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

— Mark Twain

“He noticed further that no Boer ever interceded when a Hottentot was flogged; that in punishing Hottentots the Boers used dangerous weapons, the most…

— Sol T. Plaatje

The British in South Africa always portrayed themselves as more enlightened and tolerant than the 'narrow-minded', 'intolerant' Boers.

— Kwasi Kwarteng