Inspirational Tennis Quotes - Page 2

• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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• Tennis just a game, family is forever.

  Serena Williams

  Family, Games, Tennis

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• Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hero, Past, Tennis

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• An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

  Rod Laver

  Couple, Virginia, Games

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• What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

  James M. Barrie

  Sorry, Games, Play

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Love, Sports, Tennis

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• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Education, Tennis, Problem

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

  Virginia Graham

  Games, Tennis, Luck

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• Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

  Roger Kahn

  Sports, Golf, Tennis

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