Tennis Quotes - Page 16

• You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Dad, Believe

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• In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

  Andre Agassi

  Men, Islands, Games

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

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• If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

  Andre Agassi

  Girl, Children, Son

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• First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Distance, Believe

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• Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

  John Newcombe

  Team, School, Player

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• I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

  John Newcombe

  School

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• When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wind, Play, Robots

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• Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  Venus Williams

  Almost Perfect, Order, Play

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• I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Example, Good Examples

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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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• The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

  Steffi Graf

  Athlete, Thinking, Mind

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• I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

  Steffi Graf

  Strive, Shows

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed.

  Steffi Graf

  Success, Measure Of Success, Ifs

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• To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

  Mats Wilander

  Nadal, Would Be, Fighter

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• I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Way, Break, Stills

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• Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

  Mark Driscoll

  Dog, Jesus, Kings

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• You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Block, Focus, Mellow

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• The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving.

  Robert Redford

  Horse, Dad, Moving

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• Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

  Jim Courier

  Encouragement, Intellectual, Development

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• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Respect, Usage

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Eye, Shoes

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• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Confidence, Player

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

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Player, Want

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• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Impact, Very Positive

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