Don Yaeger Quotes
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.
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With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.
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Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
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I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
