Ivan Lendl Quotes

I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

People don't want to give me credit, which is fine.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

A sense of grievance can accumulate with the success of conflict no matter how it has been resolved.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing.

It is always hard when the referee is against you.

If I feel as though myself or my teammates have been dealt a wrong hand, I'm going to let it be known.

For too long, I have been overlooked. For too long, I have been disrespected. For too long, I had been too good.

I work so hard for what I do. To achieve what I have has taken me half of my life to be able to achieve what I have achieved. And for people to think I have taken a shortcut, it's not right, and it's not fair.