Pierre Berbizier quotes

“If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.”
-- Pierre Berbizier

Source : "Football's most hyperbolic week ever" by Harry Pearson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”

“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.”

“Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

“But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.”

“Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.”

“I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.”

“Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.”

“All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.”

“It always seems that people who bring nothing to the table take the most from it.”

Source : Twitter post from May 31, 2011