Tennis Quotes - Page 31

• I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.

  David Foster Wallace

  Fun, Team, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

  Conan O'Brien

  Games, Deodorant, Coming Out

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• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  Rachel Bilson

  Dancing, Gym

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• Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Mom, Baseball

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

  Jimmy Connors

  Play, Wish, Wanted

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• I want to play tennis and fornicate.

  Robert Plant

  Play, Want

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• You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Over You, Balls

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• Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything.

  Argus Hamilton

  Nbc, Tuesday, Cameras

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• Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, Sex, Fall

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• I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Morning, Exercise, Bodybuilding

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• I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.

  Sloane Stephens

  Monday, Training, Hours

  "Sloane Stephens on Diet, Fitness, and Beating Serena". Interview with Heidi Pashman, www.shape.com.

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• I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

  Sloane Stephens

  Stuff, Heard, Random Stuff

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• It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp.

  Paul Reiser

  Summer, Fun, Practice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  "Boris Kodjoe The ‘Addicted’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 7, 2014.

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• If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

  Tom Shadyac

  Wall, Degrees, Balls

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• Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!

  George Pattison

  Unique, Player, Views

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

  Jim Loehr

  Gratitude, Character, Thankfulness

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• Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Mean, Thinking, Negative Words

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• It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis.

  Novak Djokovic

  Important, Essentials, Able

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• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

  Ernest Sosa

  Risk, Athletic, Jazz Improvisation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Golf, Play, Boxing

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

  Rafael Nadal

  Uncles, Philosophy, Simple

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Balls, Common

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

  Rafael Nadal

  Basketball, Eye, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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