Tennis Quotes - Page 32

• It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

  Rafael Nadal

  Basketball, Eye, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

  Rafael Nadal

  Opponents, Court

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

  Rafael Nadal

  Wrestling, Self, Lessons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

  Rafael Nadal

  Player, People, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

  Rafael Nadal

  Beautiful, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

  Rafael Nadal

  Pleasure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Two Sides, Voice

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

  Alan Greenspan

  Baseball, Golf, Play

  Source: www.today.com

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• Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

  Roger Housden

  Writing, Natural Gifts, Painting

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You also can understand how to play tennis from Serena Williams, and she is awesome. I haven't seen her Masterclass but just watching her on the court - I saw some of Wimbledon on TV and there's such an awesome force in her and focus and determination and technique, you just look at her and it's awesome. If I would like to learn tennis I would immediately turn to her.

  Werner Herzog

  Determination, Play, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.

  Delphine Arnault

  Sports, Swimming, Practice

  Source: wwd.com

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• I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

  Margot Robbie

  Taken, Play, Lessons

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Sports, Football, People

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• I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

  Jeremy Irons

  Trying, Balls, Tedious

  Source: in.ign.com

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• Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net.

  Jim Courier

  People, Sides, Shots

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

  Jim Courier

  Thinking, Play, Able

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

  Jim Courier

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

  Jim Courier

  Basketball, Running, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.

  Jim Courier

  Wise, Children, Spring

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

  Dan Jenkins

  Mother, Children, Hair

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Mean, Bread, Cups

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• Your game is only as good as your second serve

  John Newcombe

  Games

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• I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

  Jimmy Connors

  Lost, Ran

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• I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tired, Cocky, Player

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• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  Pat Cash

  Two, Half, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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