Tennis Team Quotes

• I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

  Billie Jean King

  Team, Tennis, World

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• It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

  Pete Sampras

  Men, Tennis, Balls

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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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• The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depressing, Wall

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• What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

  John McEnroe

  Stay Strong, Winning, Tennis

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

  Yannick Noah

  Two, Tennis, Arena

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Team, School

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• Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

  Megan McCafferty

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

  John Newcombe

  Team, School, Player

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• The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Father, Team

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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• Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Team, Artist, Tennis

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• Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

  Carrot Top

  Team, Thinking, Tennis

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