Tennis Quotes
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Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.
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It's crazy how it is. I mean, I go from being not known to, you know, being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general.
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I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.
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I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
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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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Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.
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Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
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But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
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For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
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Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.
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Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.
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I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.
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Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.
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I go from being not known to being so known in the tennis world, in Canada in general. It's going to be a little bit of a change to me. I'm going to have to adapt. But that doesn't change things. I still have to work really hard every day.
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I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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Tennis was more than a passing interest, but I found my ability didn't measure up to these West Coast kids who had played 12 months a year and taken it much more seriously than I.
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Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
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I actually wanted to be a tennis player.
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My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.
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With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.
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The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.
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I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!
