Bobby Riggs Quotes

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and wanting to stay young forever just sounds exhausting. It's one of those desires that people think they want but when you actually stop to think about what it actually means, it's really awful. One of the reasons that life is bearable is because it's going to end soon. One of the main concerns of fiction is how do we make a life of 85 years or so meaningful.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Life is the longest death in California.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

I feel lucky to keep playing tennis, being healthy all those years, to compete in one of the most beautiful events of the year, without a doubt.

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.