Tennis Quotes
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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.
Andre Agassi
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova
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I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.
Bethany Hamilton
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I was a tennis player in high school and college.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
Marat Safin
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If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
Mark Billingham
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I had a fabulous childhood. Not many people have an outdoor tennis court that you're allowed to put your ponies on and pretend you're at Hickstead.
Louise Wilson
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
Action Bronson
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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.
Holly Hunter
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It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.
Conan O'Brien
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
Anna Kournikova
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Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.
Caroline Wozniacki
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I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.
Martina Navratilova
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Sally Ride
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
John C. Hawkes
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No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
Jimmy Connors
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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.
John McEnroe
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Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
John McEnroe
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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.
Andy Roddick
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
Rafael Nadal
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I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
Lisa Rinna
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There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.
Marion Bartoli
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
Venus Williams
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I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.
Jim Courier