Tennis Quotes - Page 35

• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  Pat Cash

  Two, Half, Lasts

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

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• There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, People, Speech

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• Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

  Rod Laver

  Stars, Kids, Play

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• When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'

  Mats Wilander

  Player, Thinking, Earth

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• My country is taking over in tennis

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Country

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• I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.

  Tim Henman

  Winning, Player, Years

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• Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

  Boris Becker

  Girl, Cost, Distraction

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• To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.

  Guillermo Canas

  Moving, Mean, Hair

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• The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

  Jim Courier

  Play, Court

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• Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

  Marat Safin

  Player, Games, Doe

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• I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.

  Thomas Muster

  Thinking, Nuts, Ifs

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• You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

  Mats Wilander

  Winning, Player, Wimbledon

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• My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Prize Money, Careers, Guy

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• My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

  Andre Agassi

  Shields, Results, Marrying

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• Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

  Dmitry Tursunov

  Girlfriend, Emotional, Umpires

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2011

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• I'm not Mr. Nice Guy, I'm a tough cookie

  Thomas Muster

  Nice, Guy, Cookies

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• He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Games, Beats, Hard

  Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2004.

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• I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match...It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much...Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still.

  Gaston Gaudio

  Thinking, Two, Guy

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• It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

  Andy Murray

  Perfect, Finals, Reaching

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• A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.

  Venus Williams

  Winning

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• It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

  Tim Henman

  Knees, Bees, Disappointing

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• It was a good shot, but he didn't execute it very well.

  Annabel Croft

  Shots, Wells

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• He [Andy Roddick] doesn't make mistakes, only when he has to.

  Andrew Castle

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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• My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

  Maria Sharapova

  Jobs, Want, Good Job

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• The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

  Andy Roddick

  Should Have, Keys, Might

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