Tennis Quotes
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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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As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
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My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.
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It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
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My country is taking over in tennis
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My tennis skills are okay.
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I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
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I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.
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As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
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Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.
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Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
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When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.
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Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!
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I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.
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I help design my own tennis clothes.
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It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
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Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.
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Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
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Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
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Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.
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I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
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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.
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I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
