Tennis Quotes - Page 24

• If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

  Venus Williams

  Giving, Trying, Shots

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• I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

  Marion Bartoli

  Believe, Brain, Use

  "Wimbledon 2010: People's champion Marion Bartoli back to hold court". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.

  Patrick McEnroe

  Games, Long, Fans

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• Joe Biden was spotted with a bruise on his face that was apparently caused by his dog. I guess they collided when they both went after the same tennis ball.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Balls, Bruises

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• Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Kids, Golf

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

  David Deutsch

  Play, Interesting, People

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• It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

  John Newcombe

  Cheating, Balls, Opponents

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• I was never happy that my injuries cut my career short and ultimately forced my decision to step away from tennis. I have enjoyed my time away from the court, a period that has allowed me to experience a different side of life. However, I miss the game and the challenge of competing at the highest level of tennis, and I want to gauge whether I can stay healthy and compete against today's top players.

  Martina Hingis

  Cutting, Player, Games

  "Hingis plans comeback to top tennis three years after retiring" by Steve Bierley, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2005.

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• We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

  Stephane Simian

  Stars, Sides, Evolution

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• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

  Walter Cronkite

  Doctors, Years, Play

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• Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.

  Johnny Depp

  Kids, Two, Alcohol

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

  Arthur Ashe

  Powerful, Boys, Virginia

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• To hear that you're doing something that other people are enjoying, it's a fun game. It's like hitting a tennis ball over the net, and somebody hits it back. That's what it feels like with the fans. It feels like someone else is participating in my creation, and it's quite incredible.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Fun, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

  Edwin Land

  Athlete, Past, Games

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• Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Play, Joy, Acting

  "Tom Hiddleston THE AVENGERS Set Visit Interview". Interview on the Set, collider.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Acting, Bits

  "Thor - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

  Michael Wilbon

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

  Ruud Gullit

  Taken, Individual, Wanted

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Kings, Games, Play

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• A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

  Isaac

  Guitar, Fake, Racket

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• Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

  Johnny Bench

  Fighting, Wind, Games

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• For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

  Gael Monfils

  Sports, Jobs

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• My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

  Andy Roddick

  Dog, Small Dogs, Huge

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