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Tennis Quotes By Roger Federer

I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now. — Roger Federer

Tennis Quotes By Francine Pascal

Fifteen love,' Chris said in a strong, clear voice as he set up for his next serve, and Elizabeth sensed that in addition to announcing the score, he was sending her a special message. A message about love ... — Francine Pascal

Tennis Quotes By Ivan Lendl

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change. — Ivan Lendl

Tennis Quotes By John Newcombe

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. — John Newcombe

Tennis Quotes By Rafael Nadal

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis. — Rafael Nadal

Tennis Quotes By Stefan Edberg

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off. — Stefan Edberg

Tennis Quotes By J.D. Robb

Peabody wandered off, scanning the entertainment units lining the wall, wondering what it would be like to be able to afford any amusement available: music, art, video, holograms, VR, meditation chambers, games. Play a set of tennis with the latest Wimbeldon champ, dance with a hologram of Fred Astaire, — J.D. Robb

Tennis Quotes By Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour. — Billie Jean King

Tennis Quotes By David Foster Wallace

John McEnroe ... was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad. — David Foster Wallace

Tennis Quotes By Chelsea Handler

After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe case of vagina elbow. It's a condition not unlike tennis elbow, but you get it from masturbating. — Chelsea Handler

Tennis Quotes By Trenton Lee Stewart

The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle,
And some have been known to fall in it.
In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received,
And sometimes a person may win it.
Though not seen or heard it may be perceived,
Like princes or bees it's in clover.
The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle,
And without it one cannot start over. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Tennis Quotes By Earl Nightingale

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people wait passively for success to come to them, living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully. — Earl Nightingale

Tennis Quotes By Anne Fortier

What kind of woman agrees to a blind date at the top of a tower? And what kind of man spends his nights with a helmet on his head, visor closed, communicated with people via tennis balls? — Anne Fortier

Tennis Quotes By Marat Safin

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you. — Marat Safin

Tennis Quotes By Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body. — Chris Evert

Tennis Quotes By Steffi Graf

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. — Steffi Graf

Tennis Quotes By Aaron Zigman

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

Tennis Quotes By Thomas Muster

I'm not Mr. Nice Guy, I'm a tough cookie — Thomas Muster

Tennis Quotes By Stephane Simian

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars. — Stephane Simian

Tennis Quotes By John McEnroe

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

Tennis Quotes By Lisa Birnbach

Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand. — Lisa Birnbach

Tennis Quotes By Venus Williams

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with. — Venus Williams

Tennis Quotes By Jim Loehr

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others. — Jim Loehr

Tennis Quotes By Dick Gephardt

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and run, and I ran for 30 years pretty religiously. — Dick Gephardt

Tennis Quotes By Maria Kirilenko

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different. — Maria Kirilenko

Tennis Quotes By Donna De Varona

In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo. — Donna De Varona

Tennis Quotes By Vic Braden

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose. — Vic Braden

Tennis Quotes By Marcelo Rios

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage — Marcelo Rios

Tennis Quotes By Shel Silverstein

I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
I don't know, but it must be better than work. — Shel Silverstein

Tennis Quotes By Tracy Austin

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life. — Tracy Austin

Tennis Quotes By John C. Maxwell

Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest of it is hidden under the water. When you look at successful leaders, you see only a fraction of their lives. You see the part that looks really good, but there's usually a lot that remains hidden that's neither exciting nor glamorous. Tennis star Arthur Ashe said, "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost." True leadership is the same. — John C. Maxwell

Tennis Quotes By Garrett Neff

I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing. — Garrett Neff

Tennis Quotes By Novak Djokovic

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become. — Novak Djokovic

Tennis Quotes By Robert Mundell

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on. — Robert Mundell

Tennis Quotes By Kapil Dev

I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy. — Kapil Dev

Tennis Quotes By Margaret Halsey

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. — Margaret Halsey

Tennis Quotes By Argus Hamilton

Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything. — Argus Hamilton

Tennis Quotes By Billie Jean King

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. — Billie Jean King

Tennis Quotes By Serena Williams

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life. — Serena Williams

Tennis Quotes By Novak Djokovic

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. — Novak Djokovic

Tennis Quotes By David Foster

Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win. — David Foster

Tennis Quotes By Patrick Chan

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey. — Patrick Chan

Tennis Quotes By Carrot Top

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals. — Carrot Top

Tennis Quotes By Pierre Berbizier

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis. — Pierre Berbizier

Tennis Quotes By Leander Paes

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters. — Leander Paes

Tennis Quotes By Allan McLeod Cormack

[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects. — Allan McLeod Cormack

Tennis Quotes By David Ferrer

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings. — David Ferrer

Tennis Quotes By Michael Wilbon

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. — Michael Wilbon

Tennis Quotes By Robert Plant

I want to play tennis and fornicate. — Robert Plant

Tennis Quotes By Fawn Weaver

In that conversation with Richard, Kris did precisely what she'd done before offering her tennis quitting advice from years before. She paid attention. Instead of getting swept up in a reaction
regardless of how legitimate it would have been
she unseated herself and chose to focus on what Richard was saying. That kind of awareness is rare. It's rare in a person and even more so with a couple. — Fawn Weaver

Tennis Quotes By Ion Tiriac

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis. — Ion Tiriac

Tennis Quotes By Annie Dillard

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball. — Annie Dillard

Tennis Quotes By Mardy Fish

Besides my strokes improving, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the game. The travel's not so tough any more, I'm learning my way around the circuit. I'm learning to cope and I'm having fun. That's the key
the tennis is fun and I'm really enjoying it. — Mardy Fish

Tennis Quotes By Arthur Ashe

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist. — Arthur Ashe

Tennis Quotes By Marcus Chown

It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser. — Marcus Chown

Tennis Quotes By Pattie Maes

I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control. — Pattie Maes

Tennis Quotes By Rick Springfield

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. — Rick Springfield

Tennis Quotes By Kyla Pratt

I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.' — Kyla Pratt

Tennis Quotes By Helen Wills Moody

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. — Helen Wills Moody

Tennis Quotes By Gael Monfils

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport. — Gael Monfils

Tennis Quotes By Paul Reiser

It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well." That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp. — Paul Reiser

Tennis Quotes By Mo Rocca

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. — Mo Rocca

Tennis Quotes By Ted Cruz

I was so horrifically bad at tennis. — Ted Cruz

Tennis Quotes By Kaui Hart Hemmings

I wouldn't know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'
'But then I could wind up with something like you.'
'I'm not so bad,' he says. 'I'm smart.'
'You're about a hundred miles away from the town of Smart, my friend.'
'You're mistaken, counselor,' he says. 'I'm smart, I can take care of myself. I'm an awesome tennis player, a keen observer of life around me. I'm a good cook. I always have weed.'
'I'm sure your parents are proud.'
'It's possible.' He looks at his knees and I wonder if I've offended him. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Tennis Quotes By Roger Federer

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it. — Roger Federer

Tennis Quotes By Tom Ford

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach. — Tom Ford

Tennis Quotes By Rafael Nadal

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches. — Rafael Nadal

Tennis Quotes By Sania Mirza

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them. — Sania Mirza

Tennis Quotes By Serena Williams

I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back. — Serena Williams

Tennis Quotes By Ruud Gullit

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis. — Ruud Gullit

Tennis Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. — Jimmy Connors

Tennis Quotes By Jenna Lyons

I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important. — Jenna Lyons

Tennis Quotes By Billie Jean King

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. — Billie Jean King

Tennis Quotes By Rafael Nadal

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me. — Rafael Nadal

Tennis Quotes By Serena Williams

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous. — Serena Williams

Tennis Quotes By Boris Kodjoe

I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened. — Boris Kodjoe

Tennis Quotes By Novak Djokovic

Nobody actually played tennis in my family. — Novak Djokovic

Tennis Quotes By Jim Harrison

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls ... — Jim Harrison

Tennis Quotes By Martina Hingis

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

Tennis Quotes By Andy Roddick

If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day. — Andy Roddick

Tennis Quotes By Sylvia Plath

I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies. — Sylvia Plath

Tennis Quotes By Clive James

The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread. — Clive James

Tennis Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano
and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe

Tennis Quotes By Tomas Berdych

Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home. — Tomas Berdych

Tennis Quotes By Diana Nyad

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate ... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do. — Diana Nyad

Tennis Quotes By Richard Davies

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

Tennis Quotes By Andre Agassi

I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end. — Andre Agassi

Tennis Quotes By Albert Brooks

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better. — Albert Brooks

Tennis Quotes By Lauren Hutton

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery. — Lauren Hutton

Tennis Quotes By Andre Agassi

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have. — Andre Agassi

Tennis Quotes By Arthur Hopcraft

The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter. — Arthur Hopcraft

Tennis Quotes By Pierre Fresnay

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. — Pierre Fresnay

Tennis Quotes By Richard Krajicek

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. — Richard Krajicek

Tennis Quotes By Shannon Elizabeth

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me. — Shannon Elizabeth

Tennis Quotes By Ray Stevens

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. — Ray Stevens

Tennis Quotes By David Duchovny

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know? — David Duchovny

Tennis Quotes By Pat Cash

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. — Pat Cash

Tennis Quotes By Adam Ross

I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward. — Adam Ross

Tennis Quotes By Goran Ivanisevic

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation. — Goran Ivanisevic

Tennis Quotes By Wynter Gordon

I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour. — Wynter Gordon