I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To…

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

— Yannick Noah

Some players are constantly changing racquets, fiddling with them. It's not that I'm not specific with my racquets, but I feel that I'm not…

— Kevin Anderson

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse…

— Plutarch

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to…

— Jenny Han

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight…

— Dante Alighieri

“If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook,…

— Lemony Snicket

“unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything;”

— Laozi

“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the…

— Stewart O'Nan

“I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.”

— Neil Gaiman

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

— Marat Safin

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

— Goran Ivanisevic

Whether it's just helping us get to equal pay or helping more kids get racquets in their hands, I think any of those things…

— Jessica Pegula

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

— Honore de Balzac

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

— Anonymous