Tennis Player Quotes - Page 3

• Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

  Meg Rosoff

  Player, Tennis, Comedian

  Meg Rosoff (2007). “Just in Case”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, Men, Giving

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Player, Tennis, Healthy

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• As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

  Matt Kuchar

  Kids, Player, Tennis

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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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• I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

  Woody Allen

  Sunday, Player, Tennis

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• In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

  David Geffen

  Cheating, Lying, Player

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• The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Player, Civilization, Tennis

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Grandparent, Tennis

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• People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

  Rob Schneider

  Player, People, Tennis

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

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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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• To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Player, Tennis

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• As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

  Sania Mirza

  Sports, Winning, Player

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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 am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

  Ion Tiriac

  Player, Tennis, I Am The Best

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• A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Believe, Player, Men

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 11, 1930.

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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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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

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

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Player, Tennis

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• All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

  Maria Kirilenko

  Girl, Teenage, Player

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• Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

  Clive Swift

  Sports, Moving, Player

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