Tennis Quotes - Page 34

• I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

  Chris Evert

  Girl, Athlete, Giving

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• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Diversity, Habit

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• Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

  Dinah Shore

  Husband, Golf, Lovers

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Guitar, Balls

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Getting Older

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• I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

  Novak Djokovic

  Kids, Mirrors, Champion

  "Visualizing greatness: How Novak Djokovic rose to the top" by Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.

  Samantha Stosur

  Battle, Different, Way

  "Samantha Stosur Recaps Her 2011 U.S. Open Title Run". Interview with Long Island Tennis Magazine, longislandtennismagazine.com. September 12,2011.

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• This time last year I would have said Federer would beat Sampras's record. Now I'm not so sure. His aura has gone. He's not as dominant as he was, and since I beat him in Australia he's looked frustrated. Players are beginning to challenge him now, especially myself and Rafa. He's got 12 Grand Slams to his name and maybe he will beat Sampras, but now I'm here it will be tough for him.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, Years, Names

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• Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

  Andy Roddick

  Sorry, Player, Excuse

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• That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Winning, Trying, Teeth

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• As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

  Monica Seles

  Way, Used, Born

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• I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.

  Richard Gasquet

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

  Nikolay Davydenko

  Thinking, Games, Trying

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• He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Sports, Games, Guy

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• I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Winning, Champion, Care

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• There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Careers, Given, Occasions

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• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  Patrick Rafter

  Motivational Tennis, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Want, Proud

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• John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

  Clive James

  Looks, Building, Imaginary

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• John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.

  Tomas Smid

  Hands, Showers, Shakes

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• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

  Dan Jenkins

  Mother, Children, Hair

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Mean, Bread, Cups

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• Your game is only as good as your second serve

  John Newcombe

  Games

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• I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

  Jimmy Connors

  Lost, Ran

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• I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tired, Cocky, Player

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