Clive James Quotes About Tennis

Quotes about: Tennis

• Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

  Clive James

  Curves, Tennis, Energy

• Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Dull, Borg

• John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

  Clive James

  Hair, Tennis, Broccoli

• John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Looks, Building

• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Mean, Tennis, Bread

• Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Bombers, Balls

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

• Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

  Clive James

  Princess, Tennis, Looks

• A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

  Clive James

  Player, Tennis, Wimbledon

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