John McEnroe Quotes
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
Rafael Nadal -
I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
Pancho Gonzales -
I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
Rafael Nadal -
In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
Victoria Pendleton -
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.
Laura Robson
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
Dabney Coleman -
Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
Gautam Gambhir -
I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini -
In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
Samantha Stosur -
It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
Rafael Nadal -
When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
Samantha Stosur
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I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
Victoria Wood -
I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.
Kate Upton -
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Rafael Nadal -
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
Lars von Trier -
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
Ma Long -
Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
Rafael Nadal
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Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.'
James Roday -
If you are happy in your private life, and - that will affect your tennis, and that will help you, actually.
Ana Ivanovic -
The world has become rapidly more competitive.
John Hickenlooper -
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing -
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Taiye Selasi -
I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.
John McEnroe