Tennis Quotes - Page 29

• This is how you play tennis without the net

  Sam Harris

  Play

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• Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.

  Robin Roberts

  Yoga, Light, Play

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• Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.

  David Lloyd

  Winning, Clothes, Wimbledon

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• The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.

  David Coleman

  Mean, Pace, Faster

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• I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

  Randy Jackson

  Player, Tennis Player

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• When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

  Wolfgang Puck

  People, Boxing, Cooking

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• I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

  Abbey Curran

  New York, Cities, Goal

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.

  Billie Jean King

  Stars, Needs, Pipeline

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.

  Billie Jean King

  Fun, Children, Team

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

  Billie Jean King

  Children, Adults, Asks

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

  Alan Alda

  Play, People, Half

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May, 2013.

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• I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Play, Brain

  GOLF Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September 1988.

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• I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.

  Novak Djokovic

  Mind, Body, Care

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Team, Way

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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• I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

  Donald Young

  Knows

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• We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?

  Venus Williams

  Mean, Figures, Knows

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• It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.

  Flavia Pennetta

  Mean

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• The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

  Novak Djokovic

  Destiny, Thinking, Together

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• My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.

  Mike Bryan

  Mom, Dad, Balls

  Mike Bryan during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 7, 2014.

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• I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.

  Serena Williams

  Sports, Winning, Careers

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• Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

  Chuck Klosterman

  White, House, Get Better

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

  John Isner

  Mean, Player, Next

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• The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

  Hands, Play, Balls

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