All Quotes

"(About Roger Federer) Like Borg, he's very fair on the court, but that's to be expected: he's the best, he's a billionaire, and he knows there are people who are worse off. Others who don't behave in the same way should consider this and calm down."

"(About Roger Federer) It's hard to find faults with him, to give him a rating below ten. And I challenge anyone to do so. Like Borg, he invented a style, a way of playing."

"Padel allows everyone to have fun. Someone who plays padel badly undoubtedly has more fun than a poor tennis player, who never touches the ball and therefore ends up getting bored. Here the distances are shorter, everything is easier."

"But watching those kids cheering for Ho Chi Minh's China and Mao, and spitting on the American flag, I wondered: what do they know about China? And do they know what communism, which they like so much, is? I had been to Poland in 1956 and to Czechoslovakia the following year. I would have liked to take those students on a trip there to show them up close what they were peddling as the dictatorship of the proletariat."

"(Referring to Federico Luzzi) I didn't know him well, although I knew he was considered the hope of Italian tennis. As a player, he was very nervous, although this is a common trait among young people trying to make a name for themselves. What I don't understand is how a 28-year-old can die while many criminals walk around freely."

"Until I was 19, I played soccer better than tennis. I was in Lazio's youth team, I was a center forward and scored more than one goal per game. When the club decided to loan me out to Serie C, I gave up soccer: as a child I dreamed of being an explorer, I thought that with tennis I would travel more."

"(About Protests of 1968) I saw a generation, or at least a large part of a generation, lost behind certain snake charmers who pursued their goals without scruples. Even on the right, mind you. And many young people got caught up in it, risking their own lives and often those of others."

"Panatta earned in one year what it took me ten years to earn in my day."

"[In 1960, explaining his decision to turn professional] Until now, I have lived like a prince, and I am grateful to the Federation. But it is a fairy-tale world that would vanish at the first sign of my decline. So what prospects would I have left other than to become a coach and spend eleven hours a day under the sun teaching listless and distracted kids how to hit a ball?"

"[In 1960] I am convinced that amateur tennis is destined to disappear. In two or three years, Open Tennis will be a reality that even the Davis Cup will have to adapt to."

"What happened when it became known that the final would be against Chile? I immediately said that any decision not to play would be stupid and reckless, that politics could not stop sport and that thirty years later no one would remember Chile and Pinochet, but only the victory. And letting another team's name be on the Cup because we refused to go there was irresponsible."

"Today, all the credit goes to a phenomenal generation that made tennis a hugely popular sport throughout Italy. And some people wanted to prevent that. It's crazy."

"What was Pietrangeli's most important skill as captain? While playing, knowing how to open water bottles and hand out towels from the right side. Because that's all a captain has to do: if you have Leo Messi, there's no point in telling him how to play. Off the court, it's a little different: you have to know how to manage guys who at some point think they're God."

"In Pietrangeli, the human being always prevailed over the machine capable of playing perfectly."

"How many evenings we spent together, in the dark atmosphere of a nightclub, as the hours of the games drew nearer. The anxiety I felt, as a former player and friend, did not seem to affect Nicola in the slightest."

"If, in our day, they had confined us to an island for six months, without tennis courts, and then made us play a tournament, Nicola would have beaten us all."

"A real is never contented with maps of places and pictures of things, but always desires to see the places and things themselves."

"... the only way to become a connoisseur of honey is to keep s, for thus only may one learn to discriminate between honey made from and that gathered from ; or to distinguish, at first taste, the product of in bloom from that drawn from vagrant blossoms, which, changing day by day, mark the season's processional."

"Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth and to express it. aids both in discernment and in expression of things as they are."

"When Anna Botsford Comstock 1885 died in summer 1930 at the age of seventy-five, the pioneering naturalist left behind not only an ailing husband—famed entomologist , who was severely debilitated by a series of strokes and would pass away just half a year later—but a 760-page manuscript chronicling their decades of marriage, travel, teaching, and scientific study. It would be nearly a quarter-century until that memoir reached a wide readership, in the form of a book compiled by , Anna’s second cousin and the couple’s closest living relative. Published in 1953 by a division of , The Comstocks of Cornell was in fact just part of Anna’s original manuscript. It had been heavily edited by Herrick, also a professor of entomology on the Hill—not only to de-emphasize events and characters he considered irrelevant, but to streamline the language, remove any hint of controversy, and shift the focus toward John Henry’s august accomplishments, including his role as founder of Cornell’s entomology department."

"You are sure to get the aid of the charitable children of St. Patrick wherever you go."

"That there is no ground for anxiety about the state of religion in Tuam, and that there is nothing to be feared from the assaults of the "Soupers," — are two things I am firmly convinced of already."

"Why I love even the very sparrows of my dear Donegal."

"I'm a lucky guy: ranked 167th in the world with five Italians ahead of me, and they gave me the Davis Cup showcase!"

"I knew Federico from the age of 15. He was a player who entertained the crowd. Watching him fascinated me. I never met him on the circuit, but I will always remember him as a nice and funny guy."

"Federico not only won, he won beautifully. He was also a handsome boy, with a captivating face that was both sweet and mischievous, showered with female affection, not least from his mother Paola."

"Regardless of his tennis skills, which were perhaps not fully exploited, he was a likeable and brilliant young man, and his sudden death left his many friends in disbelief and dismay."

"The last time we had dinner together was in Los Angeles, where he was taking an acting course. “Fla, you don't know how many women,” he told me. And I teased him: “What on earth do they see in you...” Every now and then I look at the photo of Fede that I keep in my wallet: he was beautiful."

"I didn't know him well, although I knew he was considered the hope of Italian tennis. As a player, he was very nervous, but that's common among young people trying to make a name for themselves. What I don't understand is how a 28-year-old can die while many criminals walk around freely."

"Federico Luzzi was there to watch me play in the final against Safina last year, and now he's gone. It was as if he were there with me."

"He could be a phenomenon, someone like Xavier Malisse. He has the handicap of being Italian."

"Mireille Masangu à l’ONU : « les Congolaises jouent un rôle majeur dans les négociations de paix », october, 26, 2023, AfriquActu"

"Nkulu à Kolwezi pour évaluer le respect des conditions de travail et les effectifs des étrangers dans les entreprises/ auteur : Marcelo Mfumu, éditeur : Néné Nkulu , auteur de la contribution : Néné Nkulu, date : 26 october 2023"

"Mireille Masangu, the 17 march 2024 by Nancy Clémence Tshimueneka, actualite.cd"

"6. femina.cd, Christelle Vuanga Mukongo's speech on femina.cd, December 16, 2024 on femina.cd"

"1. fr : Discours, Marie-Ange Mushobekwa on ACTUALITE.CD, January 29, 2021"

"Sometimes, even a blank canvas can reveal much — about art, and about humans in general. … The production of Art features a star-studded cast, and a simple premise that expands into a multi-layered plot. While satirizing the pretensions of modern aesthetes, it [explores also] the emotions that drive long-running friendships — bringing people together, and tearing them apart."

"Ebongo Bosongo, febuary, 10, 2020, to Kinshasa, Radio"

"Auteur : "+243850710634", Discours de Yollande Ebongo Bosongo, may, 15, 2025 to Kinshasa, lumiernews.net"

"Young refugee student at the Mugosi school in Kitschoro (DRC). We must do everything possible so that everyone can contribute in their own field and so that the Congolese people can smile again.""

"fr : Émission Beni: des leaders des associations féminines sensibilisent sur l'Ebola, auteur : "Masika Yalala", november, 01, 2018"

"fr : Livre, titre : "Procès Wivine Moleka contre Vital Kamerhe : la Cour se prononcera sur les exceptions le 30 mars 2015 à Kinshasa", Author: "Israël MUTALA", Publisher: "7sur7.cd", March 24, 2015, in Kinshasa, 7sur7.cd"

"fr : JIF 2025: face aux épouses des militaires, Wivine Moleka appelle les femmes à être une force de résilience et d’espoir contre l’agression rwandaise, Author: Stanis Bujakera, Publisher: actualite.cd, Contribution Author: actualite.cd, March 16, 2025, actualite.cd"

"Discours de Wivine Moleka, March, 17, 2025, 7sur7.cd"

"Wivine Moleka en Discours sur actualite.cd, February 18, 2021, in Kinshasa, on actualite.cd"

"1. fr : Discours de Arlette Soudan-Nonault, January, 10, 2025, www.aci.cg"

"2. fr : Arlette Soudan-Nonault en discours sur adiac, January, 02, 2017, www.adiac-congo.com"

"I plead with DC supporters to be vigilant and ask themselves tough questions when new parties are being formed. You should seek to understand what their agenda is and guard against being impressionable."

"Only political parties founded on the congress ideology understand the people’s plight and their needs. People should not be taken by the wave of a new political party whose intentions are not noble."

"Be cautious. Be vigilant. Don’t ride on a leopard’s back because it will speed of with you to the forest where you will meet your demise. Look carefully around you and question why some parties are being formed. Lesotho is at a crossroads. The old Sesotho adage says that you cannot place your harvest of sorghum on an immature donkey lest it fall and spill your food."