Tennis Quotes - Page 17

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

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Player, Want

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• I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

  Maria Sharapova

  Focus, Going Out, Focused

  "Grand slam designs: Maria Sharapova's fashion statement" by Paul Gittings, edition.cnn.com. January 27, 2012.

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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 would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

  Serena Williams

  Player, Quality, Would Be

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• When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

  Stan Smith

  Goal, Focus, Mind

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• I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Winning, Years, Gold

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• Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to

  Richard Krajicek

  Games, Quality, Looks

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• There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

  Richard Krajicek

  Memories, Wife, Rehab

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• For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court

  Richard Krajicek

  Couple, Years, Firsts

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• I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

  Richard Krajicek

  Thinking, Perfection, Want

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• Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

  Andy Pettitte

  Winning, Ping Pong, Care

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• Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.

  Martina Hingis

  Beautiful, Games, Play

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• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Kids, Afternoon

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• I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

  Martina Hingis

  Mother, Dinner With Friends, Clubs

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• People always ask about young people like me being forced into things. I play tennis because I love it. I think Russians might be tougher than other people. When I arrived in America I was young, but I already knew what I wanted. I think that when you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Thinking, Play

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• I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

  Maria Sharapova

  Fall, Years, Trying

  "Maria Sharapova: My love for tennis stopped me from walking away". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Growing Up, Thinking, Winning

  "For Mauresmo, another try at the title that means most to her". Interview with Christopher Clarey, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2006.

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• The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Feelings, Cards, Asking

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• Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Stupid, Mouths, Scared

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• I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Attention, Appearance, Paid

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• And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Team, School

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

  Victoria Azarenka

  Example, Good Examples

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• Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

  Li Na

  Three, Firsts, Chance

  "Chinese tennis fans tracking Li Na's French Open progress" by Gary Morley, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2012.

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• I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

  Li Na

  Powerful, Weapons, Very Good

  "Wimbledon 2011: Li Na loses way and husband as Sabine Lisicki triumphs" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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