Tennis Quotes
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It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.
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When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.
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I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.
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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.
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I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
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In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
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I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.
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I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
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I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.
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Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.
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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
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Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
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China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.
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Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
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My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
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I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
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Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
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It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.
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In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.
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I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
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To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
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When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.
