Great Tennis Quotes

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  One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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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• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Education, Tennis, Problem

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• Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Tennis, Win Or Lose

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• Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

  Novak Djokovic

  Games, Tennis, Fit

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  You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Motivation, Winning

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• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Kindness, Teaching

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• 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 cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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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.

  Pete Sampras

  Inspirational Sports, Winning, Talking

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

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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.

  Maria Sharapova

  Believe, Helping Others, Years

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• The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Attitude, Athlete

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• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Play, Skills

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2003.

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• I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Play, Tennis

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• My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

  Tom Brady

  Mom, Player, Years

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• 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

  Fun, Tennis, Fans

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• What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Athlete, Player, Tennis

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• You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

  Hank Ketcham

  Home, Golf, Tennis

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• Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.

  Sloane Stephens

  Eight, Play, Tennis

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• I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

  Michael Chang

  Attitude, Winning, Past

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• He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Son, Player, Tennis

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.117, Hachette UK

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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

  Monica Seles

  Sports, Dark, Years

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• I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

  Bjorn Borg

  Regret, Careers, Tennis

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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.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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