Tennis Quotes - Page 17

• Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

  Novak Djokovic

  My Family

  "Novak & Ana". Interview with Emma John, Adrian Deevoy, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.

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• Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

  Novak Djokovic

  Winning, Play, Focus

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• Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Cheer, Fighting, Animal

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• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Silly

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• I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Kids, Trying

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• Flying has opened up new horizons for tennis.

  Jim Courier

  Flying, New Horizons, Horizon

  "Tennis is dependent on jet travel" By Jim Courier, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2004.

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, Squash, People

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• The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

  Jimmy Connors

  Thinking, Games, Minutes

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• It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

  Vijay Singh

  Athlete, Men, Play

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• There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

  Rod Laver

  Player, Ingredients, Tennis Player

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

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• I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

  Andre Agassi

  Hate, Passion, Dark

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.3, Vintage

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• You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Dad, Believe

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• In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

  Andre Agassi

  Men, Islands, Games

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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• If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

  Andre Agassi

  Girl, Children, Son

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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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• Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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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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• I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

  John Newcombe

  School

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• When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wind, Play, Robots

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• Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  Venus Williams

  Almost Perfect, Order, Play

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• The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

  Steffi Graf

  Athlete, Thinking, Mind

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• I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

  Steffi Graf

  Strive, Shows

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed.

  Steffi Graf

  Success, Measure Of Success, Ifs

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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

  Nadal, Would Be, Fighter

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• I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Way, Break, Stills

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