Tennis Quotes - Page 30

• This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.

  Johanna Konta

  Real, Community, World

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• I don`t know why, but I love the dog eat dog nature of tennis. It`s real, it`s brutal and there`s no hiding place - it's like a one to one street fight. I love the intensity that comes with knowing you walk off court either a winner or a loser. It`s daunting but very exciting. There is no one to blame except yourself, no one cares who comes second.

  Pete Sampras

  Dog, Real, Fighting

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• I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

  Boris Becker

  War, Lost, Havens

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• I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.

  Jenna Lyons

  Shoes, Important, Sweatpants

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• Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.

  Irwin Corey

  Shoes, Two, Answers

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• Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Challenges, Defeat

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• When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

  Gary Hoey

  Hard Work, Player, Jumping

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• I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

  Carol Burnett

  Play, Looks, Eyeballs

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Smell, Luck, Needs

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• Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

  Carrot Top

  Team, Thinking, Comedy

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• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

  Jonathan Ames

  Sixteen, Complicated, Problem

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• That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.

  Paul Samuelson

  Kings, Drinking, Coffee

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• I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

  Arthur Ashe

  Selfish, Accomplishment, Want

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• People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Jobs, Son

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  Pete Sampras

  Simple, Simple Life, Extravagance

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• A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Self, Court

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• I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

  Roger Federer

  Fun, Fans, Court

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• The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

  Roger Federer

  Play, Important, Crowds

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• I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Flair, Felt

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• Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

  Roger Federer

  Motivation, Long, Levels

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• Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness...they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Important, Want

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• I never think about the numbers. I've never played tennis for the money, because as long as I enjoy it, and I can achieve anything, then the money will come. I know that things will start coming up, many more people will want to start getting involved. But I just want to keep my head cool, and I want to leave (business) to the people who take care of business. I just go out and I just play tennis.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, Play, Numbers

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• We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.

  Venus Williams

  Training, Excited, Free Time

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• I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Years, Guy

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• I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

  Andy Roddick

  Kids, Winning, Men

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