Tennis Player Quotes - Page 4

• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Philosophy, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.21, Anchor

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• I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.

  Robbie Rist

  Sports, Kids, Player

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived through the success of a whole slew of boxers and feel I could invest emotionally and psychologically in their victories, and identify with them in their struggles.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Struggle, Player, Tennis

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Slalom skiers train their whole lives for like a minute and a half. We're not soccer or tennis players that can play the whole game. Once you're in the World Cup, you're physically prepared, so then ski racing almost always comes down to more mental than physical. I've been working on understanding that I've done everything that I can up until this point, and now I need to breathe and enjoy the moment, and do what I know I can do, versus trying to do more. Because you're fighting to do more, but that doesn't always work.

  Resi Stiegler

  Soccer, Fighting, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you have a dream, you don't even want to tell yourself straight out that this is what you want. You try to hide it. I never told myself I wanted to be a tennis player. But being an artist, yes, this is what I wanted since I first sat down to draw or paint. I knew that . . . I had that vision.

  Rita Ackermann

  Dream, Player, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

  Samantha Stosur

  Dream, Struggle, Player

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

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• I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

  Samantha Stosur

  Player, Thinking, Tennis

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

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• That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

  Samantha Stosur

  Couple, Player, Long

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• It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Player, Tennis, Flight

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

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• John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Player

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• Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out -- either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

  Dave McPherson

  Dream, Player, Tennis

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• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Silly

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• Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Wisdom, Airplane, Player

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• You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning.

  Novak Djokovic

  Believe, Player, Tennis

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• Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Block, Player

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• It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.

  Billie Jean King

  Player, Thinking, Choices

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• Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

  Josh Lucas

  Player, Tennis, Actors

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Athlete, Player, Tennis

  Source: daggy.name

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• I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

  Aaron Zigman

  Player, Years, Tennis

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• I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

  Randy Jackson

  Player, Tennis

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• I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

  John Isner

  Mean, Player, Tennis

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