Tennis Quotes - Page 7

• Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Soul, Trying, Green

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• tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Mph, Chess, Chess Match

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• Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.

  Sue Barker

  Mind, Battle, Trying

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• There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis.

  Serena Williams

  People, Dresses, Breathe

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

  Arthur Ashe

  Winning, Games, Life Is Like

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• I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.

  Pete Sampras

  Important, Legs

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• Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Polo

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Loneliness, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

  Andy Roddick

  Team, Home, Player

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• When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

  Virginia Wade

  Thinking, Play, Boring

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• Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court.

  Venus Williams

  Self Worth, Quality, Results

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• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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• It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

  Maria Sharapova

  Mother, Player, Way

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• The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

  Venus Williams

  Skins, Dresses, Rabbits

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• I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

  Roger Federer

  Father, Kids, Upset

  "Federer back to reclaim his Wimbledon crown". Interview with Pritha Sarkar, www.reuters.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

  John McEnroe

  Player, Want, Court

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• My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

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• I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

  Johnny Miller

  Taken, Swings, Games

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• Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.

  Serena Williams

  Believe, Comedian, Acting

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• So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Philosophy, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.21, Anchor

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• I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Baseball, Believe, Heart

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• Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.

  Jurgen Klopp

  Strong, Player, Messi

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• I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

  Stephen King

  Beach, Wife, Missing

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• Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

  Clemence Poesy

  Dad, Sneak In, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

  Bud Collins

  Two, Boxing, Brain

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