Tennis Quotes - Page 19

• It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Men, Thinking

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• When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Stay Strong, Thinking

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• I started tennis around age 2.

  Tracy Austin

  Age

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• I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

  Tracy Austin

  Championship, Coast, Pacific

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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 had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

  Matthew Ashford

  Hypnosis, Years, Racket

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• Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Running, Balls

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• First dentistry was painless.
  Then bicycles were chainless,
  Carriages were horseless,
  And many laws enforceless.
  Next cookery was fireless,
  Telegraphy was wireless,
  Cigars were nicotineless,
  And coffee caffeineless.
  Soon oranges were seedless,
  The putting green was weedless,
  The college boy was hatless,
  The proper diet fatless.
  New motor roads are dustless,
  The latest steel is rustless,
  Our tennis courts are sodless,
  Our new religion--godless.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Coffee, Boys, College

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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• A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Book, Thousand

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• I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Ponies, Gypsy, Carefree

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

  Lauren Hutton

  Golf, Doctors, Play

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• I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Journey, Way

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• If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Life, Baseball, Football

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• Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.

  Steffi Graf

  Play, Challenges, Feelings

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• Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

  Maria Sharapova

  Effort, Pay, Sometimes

  "Sharapova matches court brilliance with heartfelt speech after winning 3rd Grand Slam title" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. Janaury 26, 2008.

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• Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.

  Sania Mirza

  Girl, Years, People

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• Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

  Sloane Stephens

  Focus, Tough, Stills

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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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• 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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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Mental Health

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• If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

  Ken Rosewall

  Moving, Player, Names

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• Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

  Pete Sampras

  Careers, Focus, Mind

  Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.10, Crown Archetype

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