Tennis Quotes
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I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.
John Newcombe -
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.
Douglas Brunt
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I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.
Caroline Wozniacki -
I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
George H. W. Bush -
I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.
Adnan Sami -
Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.
Roger Federer -
I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
Alexander Zverev -
Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.
David Lloyd
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Rita Mae Brown -
This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.
Anthony Joshua -
I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends
Eugenie Bouchard -
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.
John McEnroe -
I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.
Colm Toibin -
Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.
Caroline Wozniacki
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Tennis is physical chess.
Rita Mae Brown -
I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.
Martina Hingis -
One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
Caroline Wozniacki -
I want my tennis to speak for everything.
Maria Sharapova -
If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.
Tom Shadyac -
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.
Caroline Wozniacki
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Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.
Craig Robinson -
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost -
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Boris Johnson -
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
Andy Roddick