Tennis Quotes - Page 37

• Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

  Chris Evert

  Player, Self, Giving

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• It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Drama, Different, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Winning, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

  Goran Ivanisevic

  People

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• I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

  Bjorn Borg

  Friday, Running, Monday

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• When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

  Bjorn Borg

  Wanted, Retired

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• You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

  Bjorn Borg

  Growing Up, Rain, Weather

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• I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sleep, Ifs, Loses

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• Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Independent, Differences

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• I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

  Jim Courier

  Player, Feelings, Trying

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• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, College

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

  Jim Courier

  Team, Fighting, People

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• I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

  Stefan Edberg

  Thinking, Focus, Important

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• Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Games, Two

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• Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

  Stefan Edberg

  Succeed, Wells

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• One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

  Martina Hingis

  Jobs, Kids, Play

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• I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Play, People

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• It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Boys, Play

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• China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

  Li Na

  Bigger, China

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• I feel like my whole life only tennis.

  Li Na

  Whole Life, Feels, Whole

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• My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Sports, Football, Dad

  "Ronnie O'Sullivan shies away from the limelight ahead of World Championship". Interview with Jeremy Wilson, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 16, 2010.

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• I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Mirrors, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

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• Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

  Andy Lau

  Golf, Want, Bowling

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• My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

  Donal Logue

  Mom, Missionary, Young

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

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• I love tennis, love it!

  David Oyelowo

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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