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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Author:
Venus Williams
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Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Tennis just a game, family is forever.
Author:
Serena Williams
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I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
Author:
Serena Williams
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If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.
Author:
Michael Wilbon
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Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
Author:
John Webster
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Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
Author:
Jeff Tweedy
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I have a strong tennis arm.
Author:
Bess Truman
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
Author:
Lars Trier
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In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.
Author:
Bill Tilden
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We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
Author:
Alan Thicke
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Author:
Pat Summerall
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I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Author:
Martha Stewart
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I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Author:
Jason Statham
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There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Author:
Charles Spalding
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Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
Author:
David Soul
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A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
Author:
Maria Sharapova
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I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
Author:
Monica Seles
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I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.
Author:
Monica Seles
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You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
Author:
Monica Seles
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Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
Author:
Monica Seles
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Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Author:
Monica Seles
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Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
Author:
Pete Sampras
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
Author:
Mo Rocca
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Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
Author:
Bobby Riggs
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Author:
Sally Ride
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Author:
Sally Ride
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I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.
Author:
Jana Novotna
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I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.
Author:
John Newcombe
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Tennis has given me soul.
Author:
Martina Navratilova
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
Author:
Alice Munro
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I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
Author:
Roger Moore
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I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
Author:
Helen Moody
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My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
Author:
Juliet Mills
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I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.
Author:
John McEnroe
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
Author:
John McEnroe
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Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
Author:
Joyce Maynard
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Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
Author:
Amelie Mauresmo
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This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.
Author:
Amelie Mauresmo
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In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?
Author:
Ron Livingston
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These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
Author:
John Lindsay
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I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.
Author:
Ivan Lendl
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There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.
Author:
Rod Laver
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Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.
Author:
Andy Lau
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I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
Author:
Mila Kunis
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For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Author:
Billie King
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I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
Author:
Billie King
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
Author:
Billie King
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Author:
Billie King
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I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
Author:
Billie King
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Author:
Billie King
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
Author:
Billie King
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Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Author:
Roger Kahn
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One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
Author:
Jane Kaczmarek
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Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.
Author:
Jane Kaczmarek
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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Author:
Boris Johnson
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As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
Author:
Goran Ivanisevic
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I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
Author:
Amy Irving
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I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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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.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Author:
Mitch Hedberg
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
Author:
John Hawkes
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Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.
Author:
Daniela Hantuchova
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
Author:
Uta Hagen
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Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
Author:
Virginia Graham
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It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.
Author:
Steffi Graf
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The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
Author:
Steffi Graf
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
Author:
David Geffen
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Author:
Robert Frost
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Author:
Robert Frost
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The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.
Author:
John Forsythe
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To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
Author:
Guy Forget
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When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.
Author:
Guy Forget
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.
Author:
Albert Finney
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I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Author:
Chris Evert
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When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
Author:
Chris Evert
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I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
Author:
Stefan Edberg
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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.
Author:
Stefan Edberg
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A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.
Author:
Stefan Edberg
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Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
Author:
David Crane
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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.
Author:
Jim Courier
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
Author:
Jim Courier
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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Author:
Jimmy Connors
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
Author:
Dabney Coleman
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Author:
Pat Cash
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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.
Author:
Jennifer Capriati
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What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.
Author:
Jennifer Capriati
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Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.
Author:
Jennifer Capriati
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Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
Author:
Dean Cain
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Author:
Hugo Black
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
Author:
Mahesh Bhupathi
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Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.
Author:
Boris Becker
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It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Author:
Boris Becker
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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
Author:
Boris Becker
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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
Author:
Boris Becker
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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.
Author:
James Baker
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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
Author:
Tracy Austin
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I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.
Author:
Tracy Austin
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I started tennis around age 2.
Author:
Tracy Austin
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I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
Author:
Matthew Ashford
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
Author:
Arthur Ashe
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Author:
Arthur Ashe
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I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
Author:
Andre Agassi
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But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
Author:
Andre Agassi
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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.
Author:
Andre Agassi
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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
Author:
Andre Agassi
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First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.
Author:
Andre Agassi
