Azim Premji 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.
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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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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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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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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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It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.
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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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I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
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Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
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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 can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
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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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Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets - one they learned at college - and they play it with propriety, as part of their social and academic existence; their poems are occasional verse for which life itself is only one more occasion.
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I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
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Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
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I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
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I think that, for whatever reason, we've gotten to a place where, particularly in Hollywood, things have to be very pat. Like 'I'm a good guy. I'm a bad guy.'
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
