Tennis Quotes - Page 23

• Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

  Maureen Connolly

  Thinking, Mind, Relax

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• I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

  Jana Novotna

  Years, Generations, Late

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• I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.

  Jana Novotna

  Fun, Tired, School

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• Besides my strokes improving, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the game. The travel's not so tough any more, I'm learning my way around the circuit. I'm learning to cope and I'm having fun. That's the key -- the tennis is fun and I'm really enjoying it.

  Mardy Fish

  Fun, Keys, Games

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• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  Mahesh Bhupathi

  Thinking, Games, Style

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• I like playing a bit of golf. But, if people went around beating people to
  death with golf clubs, I'd say, 'Ban golf. I'll take up tennis'

  Stephen Merchant

  Golf, People, Clubs

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• To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

  Tracy Austin

  Inspirational, Goal

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• My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Makeup, Shoes, Style

  "Kristin Bauer Van Straten, ‘True Blood’ Star, On Not Being As Glamorous As Pam" by Erica Cheung, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

  Chris Evert

  Achievement, Clay, Titles

  FaceBook post by Chris Evert from Dec 05, 2009

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• I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
  I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
  I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
  Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
  I don't know but it MUST be better than work!

  Shel Silverstein

  Soccer, Doctors, Play

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• I have a strong tennis arm.

  Bess Truman

  Strong, Hands, Arms

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• I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

  Jana Novotna

  Fashion, Thinking, Style

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

  Jana Novotna

  Woods

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• Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Shoes, Trying, Looks

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Play, Balls

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Self, Individual

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

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• For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

  Andy Murray

  Hard Work, Player, Important

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• I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Reading, Thinking

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• It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

  Bjorn Borg

  Motivation, Thinking, Play

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Running, Beach, Workout

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• An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

  Chuck Jones

  Character, Player, Keys

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• Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

  Wilbur Ross

  Beach, Team, Weekend

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• To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

  Maria Sharapova

  Focus, Able, Honest

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