Inspirational Tennis Quotes

• 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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  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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• There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

  Roger Federer

  Hard Work, Way, Embrace

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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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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• You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

  Serena Williams

  Positive, Sports, Believe

  "Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap". fortune.com. July 31, 2017.

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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, Tennis

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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, Tennis, Balls

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

  Rod Laver

  Thinking, Focus, Tennis

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

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• I hate to lose more than I love to win.

  Jimmy Connors

  Hate, Winning, Tennis

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• You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

  Roger Federer

  Believe, Goal, Long

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• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Sports, Business

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

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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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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• What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

  James M. Barrie

  Sorry, Games, Play

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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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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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

  Roger Kahn

  Sports, Golf, Tennis

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• Tennis just a game, family is forever.

  Serena Williams

  Family, Games, Tennis

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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.

  Hugo Black

  Funny, Sports, Humor

  Quoted in Think, Feb. 1963

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• When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

  Roger Federer

  Giving, Tennis, Want

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• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

  Chris Evert

  Life, Sports, Attitude

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• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

  Chris Evert

  Winning, Accomplishment, Tennis

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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