Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
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.
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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 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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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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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 live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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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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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.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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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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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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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.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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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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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
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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Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.
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Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable.
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Tennis is physical chess.
