Motivational Tennis Quotes

• I never look back, I look forward.

  Steffi Graf

  Past, Tennis, Looks

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• I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational Sports, Perfection, Tennis

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• I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Winning, Play

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• I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Strokes

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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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• 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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• What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

  John McEnroe

  Stay Strong, Winning, Tennis

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• When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Tennis, Want

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• Control the things you can control .

  Samantha Stosur

  Tennis, Dark Tower, Things You Can Control

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• I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• The ball is round, the game is long.

  Bjorn Borg

  Games, Long, Tennis

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• He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Sports, Games, Tennis

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• Everything is possible in this life.

  Marat Safin

  Tennis, This Life

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• I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Winning, Tennis, Champion

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• It is very important not to think about losing.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Tennis, Important

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

  Steffi Graf

  Player, Tennis, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Tennis

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• You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

  Nikolay Davydenko

  Thinking, Games, Tennis

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• I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Tennis, Way

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• You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

  Kim Clijsters

  Hate, Tennis, Opponents

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• He's a haircut and a forehand.

  Ivan Lendl

  Tennis, Haircuts

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• I think when you start to do well and get your confidence back, everything becomes more fun. When you're playing with not your full capacity of confidence, I think things get a little tough. I knew I could be doing better than what I was doing. Even though I was ranked 5 or 4 or whatever it was, I wanted to get back to the level I thought I could play at.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

  John Newcombe

  Fire, Negative, Way

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• I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

  Pete Sampras

  Years, Tennis, Looks

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• A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

  Ana Ivanovic

  Curves, Tennis, Problem

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