The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played.

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.