Tennis Quotes - Page 32

• What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

  Rafael Nadal

  Opponents, Court

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

  Rafael Nadal

  Wrestling, Self, Lessons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

  Rafael Nadal

  Player, People, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

  Rafael Nadal

  Beautiful, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

  Rafael Nadal

  Pleasure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Two Sides, Voice

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

  Alan Greenspan

  Baseball, Golf, Play

  Source: www.today.com

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• Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

  Roger Housden

  Writing, Natural Gifts, Painting

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You also can understand how to play tennis from Serena Williams, and she is awesome. I haven't seen her Masterclass but just watching her on the court - I saw some of Wimbledon on TV and there's such an awesome force in her and focus and determination and technique, you just look at her and it's awesome. If I would like to learn tennis I would immediately turn to her.

  Werner Herzog

  Determination, Play, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.

  Delphine Arnault

  Sports, Swimming, Practice

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Player, Trying, Bills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

  Margot Robbie

  Taken, Play, Lessons

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Sports, Football, People

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• I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

  Jeremy Irons

  Trying, Balls, Tedious

  Source: in.ign.com

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• Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.

  Jim Courier

  People, Sides, Shots

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

  Jim Courier

  Thinking, Play, Able

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

  Jim Courier

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

  Jim Courier

  Basketball, Running, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.

  Jim Courier

  Wise, Children, Spring

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Winning, Play

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• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.

  Roger Federer

  Play, Parent, Trying

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• I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

  Harrison Ford

  Play, Work Out, Care

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• In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

  David Geffen

  Cheating, Lying, Player

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• The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Player, Civilization, Imagine

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Play, People, Different

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