Bobby Riggs Quotes
The second-worst thing in the world is betting on a golf game and losing. The worst is not betting at all.
LeCompte, Tom. The Last Sure Thing: The Life & Times of Bobby Riggs. Black Squirrel Publishing, 2003.
General Butler, when acting as Military Governor of New Orleans, requisitioned $80,000 from a local bank which he never accounted for. In a later legal action, he was reproached by a lawyer for the bank, asking what Butler's neighbors back in Massachusetts would think of his action. This was his response.
Robert Larimore Riggs was an American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 or the World co-No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1939, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December 26, 1941.