Tennis Player Quotes - Page 2

• It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Simple, Player

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• I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

  Martha Stewart

  Love, Success, Baseball

  “CNN Larry King Live”, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2004.

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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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• There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Analysis, Syndromes

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• In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Player, Tennis

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• Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

  Serena Williams

  Girl, Different, Looks

  "Serena's Glam Slam" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 3, 2010.

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• I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

  Maria Sharapova

  Sports, Next, Firsts

  "Fame rushes in as Sharapova blows everyone away" by Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2004.

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• There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

  Anna Kournikova

  Girl, Sports, Player

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• Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

  Anna Kournikova

  Mean, Player, Dating

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• It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

  Maria Sharapova

  Mother, Player, Tennis

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• Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Player, Tennis, Littles

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

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• For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

  Andy Murray

  Hard Work, Player, Tennis

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• No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Athlete, Player

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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• If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

  John McEnroe

  Player, Tennis, Wish

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• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  George Plimpton

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

  Stan Smith

  Taken, Player, Thinking

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• There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

  Rod Laver

  Player, Tennis, Ingredients

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

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• I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

  Martina Navratilova

  Thinking, Self Worth, Player

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• I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Perry

  Player, Tennis, Ottawa

  "Man to Man: Matthew Perry". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. September 11, 2012.

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• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  Daley Thompson

  Player, Tennis, Personality

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• My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

  Marat Safin

  Football, Mother, Player

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". Interview with Jill Lieber, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Player, Choices

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, College

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

  Chris Evert

  Player, Self, Giving

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• If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

  Helen Wills

  Women, Mean, Player

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