Tennis Quotes - Page 6

• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Failure, Loss

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

  Billie Jean King

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 14, 2010

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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.

  Pat Cash

  Sports, Mcdonalds, Bucks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

  Monica Seles

  Play, Want

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• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

  Russell Lynes

  Men, Addiction, Let Him Go

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• This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Moving, Crosses

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• The next point - that's all you must think about.

  Rod Laver

  Thinking, Focus, Next

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Winning, The End Of The Day

  "I've Lived A Charmed Life". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

  Nat Hentoff

  Sports, Opportunity, Giving

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• In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.

  Maria Sharapova

  Athlete, Player, Years

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• Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Sleep, Able

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

  Andy Murray

  Emotion

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, Men, Giving

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• I'm not involved in tennis but committed.

  Martina Navratilova

  Committed, Involved

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• I play better tennis because the court is there.

  Robert Frost

  Play, Court

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• I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.

  Maria Sharapova

  Hard Work, Thinking, Play

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• Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Wall, Sleep, Wimbledon

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• It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

  Pete Sampras

  Men, Balls, Hiding

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• The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Football, Greatness

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• Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Zero, Tears

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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