Tennis Courts Quotes

• The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

  Novak Djokovic

  Destiny, Thinking, Tennis

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• A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.

  Tom Ford

  Beach, Men, Cities

  "Tom Ford's five easy lessons in how to be a modern gentleman". Interview with Jefferson Hack, www.anothermag.com. March 18, 2011.

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• A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Self, Tennis

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• I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.

  Sloane Stephens

  Monday, Tennis, Training

  "Sloane Stephens on Diet, Fitness, and Beating Serena". Interview with Heidi Pashman, www.shape.com.

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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

  Tennis, Soul, Trying

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• First dentistry was painless.
  Then bicycles were chainless,
  Carriages were horseless,
  And many laws enforceless.
  Next cookery was fireless,
  Telegraphy was wireless,
  Cigars were nicotineless,
  And coffee caffeineless.
  Soon oranges were seedless,
  The putting green was weedless,
  The college boy was hatless,
  The proper diet fatless.
  New motor roads are dustless,
  The latest steel is rustless,
  Our tennis courts are sodless,
  Our new religion--godless.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Coffee, Boys, College

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• An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

  Chuck Jones

  Character, Player, Keys

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• My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Jobs, Bmw, Tennis

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

  Brad Gilbert

  Jobs, Tennis, Good Job

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• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  Rafael Nadal

  Tennis, Court, Superstitious

  "Travel tips from tennis ace Rafael Nadal". www.cnn.com. May 13, 2013.

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• You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.

  Marat Safin

  Winning, Tennis, Want

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• You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

  James Baker

  White, Tennis, House

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• First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Distance, Believe

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• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Kids, Tennis

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• It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

  Rafael Nadal

  Basketball, Eye, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

  Rafael Nadal

  Dog, Player, Tennis

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• A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

  Pierre Fresnay

  Golf, Escaping, Tennis

  "Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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• To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

  Mats Wilander

  Tennis, Nadal, Would Be

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• I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

  Andy Roddick

  Loss, Winning, Thinking

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• I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

  John McEnroe

  Player, Tennis, Want

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• I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

  Roger Federer

  Father, Kids, Tennis

  "Federer back to reclaim his Wimbledon crown". Interview with Pritha Sarkar, www.reuters.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Tennis, Backyards, Firsts

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.61, David C Cook

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• All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

  Mike Royko

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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