Tennis Quotes - Page 19

• Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

  Li Na

  Three, Firsts, Chance

  "Chinese tennis fans tracking Li Na's French Open progress" by Gary Morley, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2012.

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• I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

  Li Na

  Powerful, Weapons, Very Good

  "Wimbledon 2011: Li Na loses way and husband as Sabine Lisicki triumphs" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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

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• You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Block, Focus, Mellow

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• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Respect, Usage

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• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Confidence, Player

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• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Impact, Very Positive

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• In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Crazy, Play, Argentina

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• It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Play, Easy

  "Nasdaq 100-Open". Interview with Bud Collins, Butch Buchholz, www.asapsports.com. March 31, 2006.

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• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Practice, Trying, Psychologist

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• It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Stay Strong, Thinking

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• I started tennis around age 2.

  Tracy Austin

  Age

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• I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

  Tracy Austin

  Championship, Coast, Pacific

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• A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Believe, Player, Men

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 11, 1930.

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• I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

  Matthew Ashford

  Hypnosis, Years, Racket

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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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• 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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• A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Book, Thousand

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• I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Ponies, Gypsy, Carefree

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

  Lauren Hutton

  Golf, Doctors, Play

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• I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Journey, Way

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• If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Life, Baseball, Football

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• Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.

  Steffi Graf

  Play, Challenges, Feelings

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