Jim Quotes

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial

The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do.

Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it’s just cheap.

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.

There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.

What I like about the USTA is that it's developing systems to help the coaches coach better.

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

We have a lot of options. America is a great country.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

America is the world's policemen, whether you and I like that or not. That's a fact. People globally feel that.

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

Getting to number one in the world without a coach is highly unlikely.

What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.

In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.

Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

A lot of times people will say, 'Well, gosh, you're really good; you should try acting!' And I say, 'Come on! I'm thesping my little guts out over here.'

Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

I'm usually the guy who says, 'Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington in the Siege'!