Tennis Quotes
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It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.
Ana Ivanovic
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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.
Kevin Spacey
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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.
Anthony Goldbloom
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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.
John McEnroe
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg
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I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends
Eugenie Bouchard
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To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
Maria Sharapova
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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.
Li Na
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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.
Jane Kaczmarek
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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.
Andy Roddick
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There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.
Alvaro Enrigue
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I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.
Monica Seles
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
Bill Tilden
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It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
Bjorn Borg
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I am very athletic and like to play tennis, run, hike, and work out with my trainer. I also enjoy traveling, and given that it's a part of my job, I get to do it a lot.
Dylan Lauren
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Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.
Stefan Edberg
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Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
Mike Weir
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Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
P. J. O'Rourke
