Tennis Quotes
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I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
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I could not control my tennis. I'm defending my country. It's a different situation. You're not playing for yourself. There's so many people behind you and you think you're disappointing them.
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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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Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.
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Tennis is more commercial these days.
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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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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 love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
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Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?
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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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A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy.
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Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.
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I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.
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I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.
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The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
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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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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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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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When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
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Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
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Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to
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This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.
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I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
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China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.
