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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.

  Roger Federer

  Hurt, Sorry, Player

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• Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Couple, Athlete

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• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  Sally Ride

  Kings, Hero, Player

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• I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket

  Sania Mirza

  Epic, Player, Ms Dhoni

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• Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

  Billie Jean King

  Forever, Victory, Fleeting

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• The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

  David Feherty

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Player, Tennis

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