Angelique Kerber Quotes
To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
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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.
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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'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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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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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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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.
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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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.
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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 love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
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If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.
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I have a strong tennis arm.
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I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.
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The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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Do every single thing you can to protect yourself, your family, and your country.
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Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
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To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
