Tennis Quotes - Page 33

• I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

  Elton John

  Hate, Shoes, I Hate

  Interview With Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Apr 30, 2010

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• I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Squash, Roots

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• I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Team, Helping

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• I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Made, Has Beens

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• I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

  Billie Jean King

  Team, World, Wells

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• Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

  Billie Jean King

  Home, Men, Survival

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• It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Simple, Player

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• I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Running, Beach, Girlfriend

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

  Roger Moore

  Swimming, Play, Skiing

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• Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Art, Boxing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

  Rafael Nadal

  Important, Ends, Important Things

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• I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

  Rafael Nadal

  Running, Games, Ifs

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• Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Years, Play

  "Rafael Nadal: 'For everybody there are tough moments. This year, mine came'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2009.

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• For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Golf, Practice

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Morning, Bed

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Victory

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  Rafael Nadal

  Winning, Thinking, Luck

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  Rafael Nadal

  Transition, Problem, Sometimes

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Real, Book

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

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• I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?” “Not at you,” said Will, grinning, “more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.” “Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that? And don’t say ‘spats’ or ‘lawn tennis’ or something silly.” “Good Lord,” he said with mock horror, “it’s like she knows me already.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Book, Thinking

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• while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Zero, Love Is, Would Be

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• I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

  Venus Williams

  Positive, Crazy, Trying

  " I'll be back, vows Venus Williams after shock Wimbledon defeat" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

  Clive Swift

  Sports, Moving, Player

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• I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

  Fred Perry

  Sports, Athlete, Champion

  "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies" by Paul Fein, (p. 146), 2003.

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