Grand Slam Tournaments
Grand Slam commonly names a comprehensive or great achievement, derived from the "grand slam" in contract bridge which is a successful contract to win all thirteen tricks on one deal of card game.
Grand Slam, grand slam, and so on, may also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or slam:
“The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“to slam the door on all the days she’ll stay the same
and never ask why and never think who to ask,
to slam the door and rip off her orange blouse.
Father, father, I wish I were dead.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)