Tennis Quotes - Page 29

• I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Water, Dinner, Study

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• Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Running, Volleyball, Workout

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• When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Fun, Games

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• Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sports, Marrying

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• I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.

  Art Buchwald

  Sex, Lists, Normal

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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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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• People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

  Jimmy Connors

  Heart, People, Training

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• But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Thinking, Stories

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• I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Smell, Luck, Needs

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• Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

  Carrot Top

  Team, Thinking, Comedy

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• I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

  Jonathan Ames

  Sixteen, Complicated, Problem

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• That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.

  Paul Samuelson

  Kings, Drinking, Coffee

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• I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  Pete Sampras

  Simple, Simple Life, Extravagance

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• A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Self, Court

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• The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

  Roger Federer

  Play, Important, Crowds

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• I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Flair, Felt

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• Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

  Roger Federer

  Motivation, Long, Levels

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• Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness...they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Important, Want

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• I never think about the numbers. I've never played tennis for the money, because as long as I enjoy it, and I can achieve anything, then the money will come. I know that things will start coming up, many more people will want to start getting involved. But I just want to keep my head cool, and I want to leave (business) to the people who take care of business. I just go out and I just play tennis.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, Play, Numbers

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• We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.

  Venus Williams

  Training, Excited, Free Time

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• I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

  Andy Roddick

  Kids, Winning, Men

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• I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

  Novak Djokovic

  Long, Guy, Good Things

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• I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

  Novak Djokovic

  Lying, Years, Trying

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• My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

  Novak Djokovic

  Father, Interesting, Together

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• As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

  Jonathan Ames

  Children, Athlete, Player

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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