Tennis Quotes - Page 24

• I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Water, Dinner, Study

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• Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Running, Volleyball, Workout

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• When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Fun, Games

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• Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sports, Marrying

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• I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.

  Art Buchwald

  Sex, Lists, Normal

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Running, Balls

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• People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

  Jimmy Connors

  Heart, People, Training

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• But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Thinking, Stories

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• I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

  Novak Djokovic

  Long, Guy, Good Things

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• I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

  Novak Djokovic

  Lying, Years, Trying

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• My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

  Novak Djokovic

  Father, Interesting, Together

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• As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Athlete, Player

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

  Dabney Coleman

  Lucky

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• All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

  Kim Clijsters

  Appreciate, Rehab, Made

  "Kim Clijsters: 'Me and Dad had this thing about the number one'". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2012.

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• It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

  Sidney Crosby

  Football, Golf, Hockey

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• I don't play tennis at all.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Play

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• My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

  Doug Davidson

  Player, Roger, My Favorite

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• I've played too many tennis hours.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Hours

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• In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Player, Long, Problem

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• To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

  Joel Edgerton

  Rocks, Balls, Grizzly Bears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

  Roger Federer

  Dad, Coaching, Littles

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  Maggie Grace

  Ice, Skating, Dangerous

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• I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

  Ashley Benson

  Jeans, Shoes, Boots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

  Michael Chang

  People, Looks, Platforms

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• I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

  Michael Chang

  Attitude, Winning, Past

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