Tennis Quotes
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You should change your tennis depending on the surface. For me, the most difficult thing on grass is how to move, like sliding to get a ball.
Kei Nishikori -
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Joseph Heller
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The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
Elliott Chaze -
I was just feeling really down and didn't want to play tennis anymore and when I was feeling down like that, what helped me is that I went back to my culture. To walk the Earth.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
I will need to keep things simple and take my mind off tennis, i will probably play video games.
Kei Nishikori -
Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
Roger Federer -
My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
Roger Federer
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With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.
Heather Watson -
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
Stan Wawrinka -
I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
Stan Smith -
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court
Richard Krajicek -
I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.
Roger Federer
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People thinks that being world No. 4 and the first seeded player of an event you have to win it, but we all know tennis does not work like this.
Kei Nishikori -
I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
Mila Kunis -
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
Roger Federer -
I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.
Serena Williams -
Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court
Stephen Fry -
Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.
Serena Williams
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I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
Roger Federer -
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.
Ernest Sosa -
I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.
Serena Williams -
There was something so cool about being able to carry this film Into the Forest together with Ellen Page and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.
Evan Rachel Wood