Tennis Quotes - Page 14

• You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Motivational Tennis

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• I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

  Amy Irving

  Hippie, Shoes, San Francisco

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

  David Feherty

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

  Billie Jean King

  Persistence, Competition, Research

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• I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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• I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

  Monica Seles

  Tough, Realizing, Ever After

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• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Giving, Satisfaction, Give Me

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• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

  Pete Sampras

  Couple, Mistake, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

  Steffi Graf

  Difficult

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• Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

  Bill Tilden

  Sports, Art, Ballet

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• Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Talking

  The PEOPLE Magazine Interview, people.com. May 21, 2001.

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• Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

  Jimmy Connors

  Sports, Machines, Pitching

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• I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Thinking, Looks

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• It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

  Andre Agassi

  Hurt, Mean, Fighting

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• Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 23, 2010

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed.

  Milos Raonic

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Wrestling, Winning

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• Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

  Billie Jean King

  Wrestling, Games, Brain

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wrestling, Games, Competition

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• I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Summer, Sports, Couple

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• It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

  James Lee Burke

  Art, Reading, Games

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• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

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