Tennis Quotes - Page 36

• If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

  Arthur Ashe

  Play, Psychiatrist, Ifs

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• I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

  Virginia Wade

  Girl, Would Be, Painful

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• Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

  Virginia Wade

  Loser, Winner

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• In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

  Arthur Ashe

  Winning, Nuts, America

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• I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

  Ilie Nastase

  Bridges, Devil, Nasty

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• Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

  Ilie Nastase

  Light, Hair, Dancing

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• One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

  Ilie Nastase

  Thinking, Careers, Laughing

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• At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.

  Virginia Wade

  Queens, Moving, Lips

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• After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Next, Etc, Sometimes

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• Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

  Andy Roddick

  Fifth

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• When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Home, Winning, Play

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• If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Cutting, Lines, Helping

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• I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

  Andy Roddick

  Want, Being Played, Coaches

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• If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

  Andy Roddick

  People, Trying, Shirts

  Interview after Australian Open, www.asapsports.com. January 18, 2003.

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• Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  This Generation, Generations

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• Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

  Brad Gilbert

  Talking, Easy, Ovens

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• The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them.

  Jelena Dokic

  Play, Trouble, Loses

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• No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

  Andy Roddick

  Play, Water, Trying

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• No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

  Jimmy Connors

  Mom, Dad, Grandparent

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• Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "Tennis champion Jimmy Connors". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

  Jimmy Connors

  Law, Teeth, More Time

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• With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

  Jimmy Connors

  Swirls, Concern, Involved

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

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• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Football, Dad

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

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• My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

  Andre Agassi

  Father, School, Order

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• If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

  Helen Wills

  Women, Mean, Player

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