Tennis Quotes - Page 11

• People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

  Julian Casablancas

  Sweaters, People, Clubs

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• I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

  Amy Chua

  Hate, Play, Competition

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• I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

  Doug Davidson

  Soccer, Awards, Years

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• I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

  Novak Djokovic

  Mind, Trying, Littles

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• Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

  Novak Djokovic

  Sports, Country, People

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• Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Couple, Athlete

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• Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Umpires, Two

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• I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Jeans, Shoes, Tanks

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

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• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  Rafael Nadal

  Technique, Helping, Aggressive

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• You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

  Rafael Nadal

  Play, Ranking, Kind

  "The Illusionist" by Peter Bodo, www.tennis.com. June 03, 2011.

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• I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Fans, Fiction

  "Dangerous minds, lethal machines" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2004.

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• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  Sally Ride

  Kings, Hero, Player

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• I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

  Sally Ride

  Careers, Long, Term

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• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Thinking, Lakes

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

  Andy Roddick

  People, Balls, Hitting

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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'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

  Andy Roddick

  Jobs, World, Analysts

  "U.S. Open: Roddick Speaks" by Reeves Wiedeman, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2011.

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• In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

  Andy Roddick

  Sports, Totems, States

  "Cool, dude". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2004.

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• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  Marat Safin

  Dream, Nuts, Bed

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• I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

  Marat Safin

  Grass

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• I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

  Marat Safin

  Trying, Different, Want

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• I help design my own tennis clothes.

  Maria Sharapova

  Clothes, Design, Helping

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• I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

  Maria Sharapova

  Children, School, Hometown

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• Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

  Maria Sharapova

  Grateful, Wonderful, Given

  "Come on girls, let's make a.. RACQUET". www.mirror.co.uk. June 17, 2010.

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• The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

  Maria Sharapova

  Play

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