Tennis Quotes - Page 11

• 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

  Venus Williams

  Nice, Pieces, Opponents

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• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  Venus Williams

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• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  Venus Williams

  Two, Three, Week

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• I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Balls, These Days

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• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  Venus Williams

  Eight, Years, Play

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• By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Struggle, School, Men

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• I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Backyards, Firsts, Court

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.61, David C Cook

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• I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

  Annie Dillard

  Feet, Balls, World

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.102, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, War, Battle

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• You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

  Melissa Bank

  Father, Believe, Expression

  Melissa Bank (2006). “The Wonder Spot”, p.45, Penguin

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• ...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

  Mark Steyn

  Guy, Cultural Relativism, Aces

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• The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Teaching, Taken

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Jobs, New York

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• Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

  Jimmy Connors

  Sports, Machines, Pitching

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• I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Thinking, Looks

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• It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

  Andre Agassi

  Hurt, Mean, Fighting

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• Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 23, 2010

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed.

  Milos Raonic

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Wrestling, Winning

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• Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

  Billie Jean King

  Wrestling, Games, Brain

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wrestling, Games, Competition

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• I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Summer, Sports, Couple

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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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