Tennis Game Quotes

• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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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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• Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

  Virginia Graham

  Games, Tennis, Luck

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• An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

  Rod Laver

  Couple, Virginia, Games

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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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• Tennis just a game, family is forever.

  Serena Williams

  Family, Games, Tennis

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• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

  Serena Williams

  Family, What Matters, Games

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• But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Book, Games, Tennis

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

  Arthur Ashe

  Winning, Games, Tennis

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• I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

  Serena Williams

  Soccer, Games, Tennis

  Source: www.tennis-x.com

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• 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

  Summer, Fun, Practice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

  Margery Wilson

  Games, Tennis, Trying

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• I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Golf, Games, Tennis

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• My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

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• In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

  Matthew Perry

  Beautiful, Kids, Hands

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

  Albert Brooks

  Games, Tennis, Get Better

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

  Conan O'Brien

  Games, Tennis, Deodorant

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• I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

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