Stefan Edberg Quotes
A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.
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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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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 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.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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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.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
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I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.
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Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
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I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.
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I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
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Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.
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That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.
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It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
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In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
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I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.
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I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.
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I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
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I love working closely with people.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.
