Tennis Quotes - Page 26

• To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Kings, Games, Play

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• A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

  Isaac

  Guitar, Fake, Racket

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• Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

  Johnny Bench

  Fighting, Wind, Games

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• For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

  Gael Monfils

  Sports, Jobs

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• I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It's magnificently made.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Running, Italian

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• This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Special, World

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• It has changed, quite a lot. It is very different now, there are quicker men, they are taller, stronger, have great stamina. The balls have also become faster. Tennis has now become a power sport. There is more depth in the game, as well, there are many more players than there used to be. The entire character of the game has changed.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Character, Player

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• Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Games, Long

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• I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

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• Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

  Uta Hagen

  Fun, Together, Wells

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• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).

  David Foster Wallace

  Basketball, Beautiful, Sports

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• One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Player

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• People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

  Kevin Spacey

  Eight, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• What fun that is, doing voices. I would do them every day if they wanted me to. It's so much fun to go to work and not shave and wear your tennis shoes and your gym clothes. As opposed to having to shave, shower, go to the gym, look good, get ready, go to makeup and hair, and all that stuff. I love doing voices. It's just so relaxing.

  Eric Roberts

  Fun, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

  Uzo Aduba

  Mother, Fate, College

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• Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Fun, Sacrifice

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• Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Player, Healthy, Energy

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• There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Son, Feet

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.211, Open Road Media

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• Tennis is physical chess.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Chess

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.341, Bantam

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• A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Smart, Golf

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• I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

  Hilary Swank

  Winning, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

  Marilyn French

  Power, Should Have, Play

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Running, Men, Race

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• [On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Mom, Mother, Champion

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