Forehand Quotes & Sayings

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it. — Rafael Nadal

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. — John Updike

I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.' — Garth Nix

I think you're healthy in certain ways, and I think you're a pathetic disaster in others. — Augusten Burroughs

The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment. — Richard North Patterson

Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me. — Dale Forehand

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur. — Pablo Picasso

My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it's the one I've won all the points with. — Roger Federer

I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court ... Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve. — Marat Safin

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want — Amish Tripathi

You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot. — Samantha Stosur

A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay. — Andre Agassi

My biggest strength is that no one can read my forehand — Sania Mirza

The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child! — Rex L. Forehand

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. — Fay Weldon

A civilization was the means by which too many people could live together despite their mutual hatred. — Steven Erikson

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there. — Gloria Steinem

I've seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains." Newt — Larry McMurtry

Are you doing life or are you living? — Dale Forehand

The serve, I was too young and too small and ... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know. — Roger Federer

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy. — Zhuangzi

Most good doubles players serve down the middle at least 80 percent of the time. If both you and your partner are right-handed, consider putting the stronger backhand service return, and/or backhand volley, in the deuce (right) court and the stronger forehand service return, and/or forehand volley, in the ad (left) court. — Pat Blaskower

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy. — Bjorn Borg

The golden door of harvest for the planet, it felt so ready to be opened ... — Tahira Amir Khan

He's a haircut and a forehand. — Ivan Lendl

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years. — Ivan Lendl

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand. — Agnieszka Radwanska