Tennis Quotes - Page 22

• Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Ties, Four

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• Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

  Boris Becker

  Couple, Computer, Very Good

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

  Carol Channing

  Character, Voice, Listening

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• All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

  Maria Kirilenko

  Girl, Teenage, Player

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• I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

  Jason Dohring

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.

  Shahar Pe'er

  Country, Israel, Play

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

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• Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Nice, Essence

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

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• Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.

  Jean de Gribaldy

  Sports, Football, Hockey

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• Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

  Ivan Lendl

  Golf, People, Asking

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• Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

  Ken Blanchard

  Winning, Wells

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• Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

  Serena Williams

  Jobs

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• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  George Plimpton

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

  Pierre Fresnay

  Golf, Escaping, Prison

  "Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

  Pierre Berbizier

  Play, Tables, Rugby

  "Football's most hyperbolic week ever" by Harry Pearson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

  Bjorn Borg

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

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• I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

  Rafael Nadal

  Player, Thinking, Enough

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• As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Golf, Hunting

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• Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cities, Jail, Advice

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Math, Player

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Interview with Lauren Lynch, bleacherreport.com. December 1, 2010.

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• It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Player, Personality

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• A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Good Day, Thinking

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• I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

  Rafael Nadal

  Dog, Player, Upset

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• To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Player, Needs

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