Tennis Quotes
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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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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 my job, but it's not my life.
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I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
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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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But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.
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Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.
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I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.
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The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.
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You're asking too much of the women. They shouldn't be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it.
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Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
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I want my tennis to speak for everything.
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I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
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I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.
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I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.
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Steve Bellamy is a natural choice for this award for being able to dream of what could and should be done in tennis at any level and take on the responsibility of making it happen and getting it done. He is creative, innovative, likeable and sometimes a maverick while developing a meeting of the minds of people at all levels whether on the court or in the boardroom.
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If we push for the children to know tennis, they have the chance to like it.
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Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.
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I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.
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If I need a pair of tennis shorts, I'll buy them online. I don't really care. Not going to go and try on a pair and see how my bum looks. Who cares? But for things that you care about - I mean, a jacket and a pair of trousers, you've got to try them on.
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Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
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The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.
