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've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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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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To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
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Southern California was for a long time the vineyard of tennis.
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I really thought to myself, 'If I'm going to do anything in this world, I am going to be the best I can be.' I have a tennis coach that has taken me as far as my body can go. I hired a private skiing coach during my birthday week. I have a private yoga instructor. I just don't understand why you wouldn't give yourself every advantage.
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After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.
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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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Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.
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That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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I admire Roger Federer, not only for his tennis but also for his personality.
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If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.
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I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.
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When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'
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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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Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.
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Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.
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My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.
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Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.
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Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
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Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
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I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.
