Tennis Quotes
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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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When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.
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One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
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Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.
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To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.
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Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.
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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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I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.
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There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
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I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
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People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.
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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.
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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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What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.
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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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Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
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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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Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.
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I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.
