Tennis Quotes - Page 40

• What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Athlete, Player, Different

  Source: daggy.name

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• I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• Men hate to lose. I once beat my husband at tennis. I asked him, "Are we going to have sex again?" He said, "Yes, but not with each other."

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Sex, Husband

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• I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Cutting, Teeth

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• I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

  Kevin Spacey

  Games, Theatre, Different

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Son, Iphone

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• The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.

  Rafael Nadal

  Years, Play, Important

  Source: in.reuters.com

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• Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Sports, Passion

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.

  Berti Vogts

  Football, Needs, Tables

  Source: www.china.org.cn

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• If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

  Berti Vogts

  Sports, Attitude, Team

  Source: www.china.org.cn

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• I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

  Aaron Zigman

  Player, Years, Decision

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• When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

  Aaron Zigman

  Winning, Play, Competing

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• When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

  Aaron Zigman

  Hurt, Piano, Upset

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• The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

  Aaron Zigman

  Rejection, Competition, Handle

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• There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

  Aaron Zigman

  Numbers, Competition, Twenties

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• Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Talking, People, Balls

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Sports, Football

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• Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

  Roger Kahn

  Sports, Golf, Tranquility

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• Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

  Billie Jean King

  Mean, Play, Focus

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• It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

  Arthur Ashe

  Winning, Player, Trying

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• Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.

  Mary Carillo

  Play, Andrea

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• At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

  John Newcombe

  Cake, Wimbledon, Candle

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• I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.

  Erma Bombeck

  Small Hands, Self, Space

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

  Rosemary Casals

  Feminine, Screws, Ifs

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• If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

  Julie Heldman

  Finding Yourself, Special, Losing

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