Tennis Quotes - Page 34

• It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

  Christine Taylor

  Brother, Growing Up, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  Daley Thompson

  Player, Personality, Feelings

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• I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Sports, Fronts

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• It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Player, Flight, Hotel

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

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• Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

  Mike Weir

  Writing, Balls, Shaving

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  Venus Williams

  Careers, Entertainment

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• I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Art

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• If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

  Joseph Morgan

  Hate, Interesting, Challenges

  "Exclusive: Joseph Morgan Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and IMMORTALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Perry

  Player, Ottawa, Canada

  "Man to Man: Matthew Perry". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. September 11, 2012.

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• In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

  Matthew Perry

  Beautiful, Kids, Hands

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• Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

  Andy Murray

  Play, Perfect, Sometimes

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

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• You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

  Andy Murray

  Talking, Feelings, Trying

  "Andy Murray: 'You need to love winning. You can't just hate losing'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 09, 2010.

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• I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Eye, Player

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

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• Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

  Andy Murray

  Mum, Wells, Coaches

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

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• When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.

  Pete Sampras

  House, Exhibitions, Shapes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

  Althea Gibson

  Country, Credit, Accomplished

  Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

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• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  Magnus

  Italian, Play, World

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• Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Sports, Golf, Opponents

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

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• My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Jobs, Real, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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

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• It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

  Jo Durie

  Nice, People, Important

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• I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

  Brad Gilbert

  Jobs, Good Job, Court

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• I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Jobs, Winning, Years

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• Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

  Christopher Bollen

  Motivation, Games, Chess

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

  John McEnroe

  Natural Talent, Play, Guy

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