Tennis Quotes - Page 8

• Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

  Clemence Poesy

  Dad, Sneak In, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

  Bud Collins

  Two, Boxing, Brain

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• Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court

  Stephen Fry

  Girl, Men, Issues

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

  Venus Williams

  Cards, Knows

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• Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

  John Irving

  Wrestling, Musical, Purpose

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• Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Games, Arson

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• You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

  Albert Brooks

  Games, Get Better, Acting

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.

  Roger Federer

  Games, Honor, Firsts

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• I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

  Chelsea Handler

  Special, Olympics, Wells

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• Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.

  Serena Williams

  Sports, Daughter, Brother

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm proud to have opened [two] schools in Africa and one in Jamaica [through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners]. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.

  Serena Williams

  Kids, School, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.

  Serena Williams

  Dream, Giving, Leaving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

  John Leguizamo

  Player, Games, Waiting

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

  Andy Murray

  Jobs, Growing Up, Play

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.

  Andy Murray

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.

  Andy Murray

  Games, Going Out, Elements

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Helping

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• So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Philosophy, Eye

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.21, Anchor

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• The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

  Venus Williams

  Skins, Dresses, Rabbits

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• When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

  Virginia Wade

  Thinking, Play, Boring

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• Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court.

  Venus Williams

  Self Worth, Quality, Results

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• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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• It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

  Maria Sharapova

  Mother, Player, Way

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• I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

  John McEnroe

  Player, Want, Court

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• My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

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