Tennis Quotes - Page 20

• Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

  Maria Sharapova

  Effort, Pay, Sometimes

  "Sharapova matches court brilliance with heartfelt speech after winning 3rd Grand Slam title" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. Janaury 26, 2008.

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• Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.

  Sania Mirza

  Girl, Years, People

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• Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

  Sloane Stephens

  Focus, Tough, Stills

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• I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

  Maria Sharapova

  Focus, Going Out, Focused

  "Grand slam designs: Maria Sharapova's fashion statement" by Paul Gittings, edition.cnn.com. January 27, 2012.

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• When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

  Stan Smith

  Goal, Focus, Mind

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Mental Health

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• If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

  Ken Rosewall

  Moving, Player, Names

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• Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

  Pete Sampras

  Careers, Focus, Mind

  Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.10, Crown Archetype

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• I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

  Vince Spadea

  Book, Player, Long

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• In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

  Marcelo Rios

  Jobs, Cages, Beast

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• Tennis is a world out of touch with reality

  Sebastien Grosjean

  Reality, World

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• This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

  John McEnroe

  Lessons, Taught, Defeat

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• There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.

  Dan Maskell

  Father, Peter, Chins

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• He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

  Dan Maskell

  Slips, Manage

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• He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

  Christine Truman

  Games, Play, Doe

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• She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

  Virginia Wade

  Racket, Wrists, Monica

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• It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

  Jo Durie

  Sun

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• Sure, I've been on the Tube...I caught it to Eastbourne once.

  Serena Williams

  Caught, Tubes

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• There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

  Andy Roddick

  Issues, Doubt, Secret

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• That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.

  John McEnroe

  Play, Should, Havens

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.

  Pete Sampras

  Weekend, Worried, Saturday

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• Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

  John McEnroe

  Running, Nerves, Veins

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• She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Differences, Shots

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• Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

  Jim Courier

  Unbelievable

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• You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.

  Jim Courier

  Thinking, Today, Has Beens

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