Tennis Quotes - Page 3

• I play each point like my life depends on it.

  Rafael Nadal

  Play, Depends, Motivational Tennis

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• Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hurt, Shoes, Feet

  "Ellen The Generous". Interview with Patricia Marx, www.elle.com. October 12, 2007.

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• There is no life for girls in team sports past
  Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
  thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Team

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 15, 2010

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• I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.

  Ion Tiriac

  Player, I Am The Best, Play

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• Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Play, Finals, Opening Day

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• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Education, Problem, Advantage

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• One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Nice, Joy, Lines

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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• When Martina is tense it helps her relax.

  Dan Maskell

  Relax, Helping, Tense

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• If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

  Max Robertson

  Champion, Jitters, Ifs

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• When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?

  Anna Kournikova

  Player, Theatre, Looks

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• Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Be Good

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• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

  Serena Williams

  Family, What Matters, Games

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• Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

  Novak Djokovic

  Games, Fit, Tennis Game

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• There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

  Anna Kournikova

  Girl, Sports, Player

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• If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

  Serena Williams

  Gun, Focus, Shooting

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• Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

  George Burns

  Men, Games, Play

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• I want my tennis to speak for everything.

  Maria Sharapova

  Want, Speak

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• We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

  Harry Carpenter

  Rain, Funny Tennis, Havens

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• Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

  Jimmy Connors

  Fun, Battle, Funny Tennis

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• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Play, Skills

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2003.

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• No-one is friends with Hewitt and he does not worry me at all.

  David Nalbandian

  Worry, Doe

  "Argentines don't like Hewitt: Nalbandian". www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2006.

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• I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Play, Icy

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• It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .

  Harry Carpenter

  Virginia, Wade, Pressure

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• The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

  Dan Maskell

  Interesting, Wisconsin, Pairs

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