Tennis Quotes - Page 9

• Tennis is my dream. It is what I love. And it is what I want to be best at.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Dream, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

  Andy Roddick

  Team, Home, Player

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• I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

  Roger Federer

  Father, Kids, Upset

  "Federer back to reclaim his Wimbledon crown". Interview with Pritha Sarkar, www.reuters.com. June 19, 2011.

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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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• 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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• There were a lot of people shouting out. I know it's not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I've ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the U.S. Open. So I've waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is. ... It was great. It was awesome. It was like winning gold.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Careers, People

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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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• I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Baseball, Believe, Heart

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• Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.

  Jurgen Klopp

  Strong, Player, Messi

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• I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

  Stephen King

  Beach, Wife, Missing

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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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• I've been spoiled being in the fashion business. My son will be like, 'Mommy, 20 new pairs of shoes came today. How come?' Because I'm always telling him it's not normal to have 20 pairs of tennis shoes to try on before school.

  Gwen Stefani

  Fashion, School, Son

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• Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States.

  Pete Sampras

  Baseball, States

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• Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Play, Sweat, Perfect

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• It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Hard Work, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Games, Arson

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• I think I play tennis for, to against a big legend, big court, short time. That's what I train for. That's why every day I wake up and I wish I could play those matches, you know. It's like, for me it's the best thing can happen is to play against that guy on that stage, you know.

  Gael Monfils

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• I really hope that I can be helpful in that journey because I do believe that women deserve the same pay. We work just as hard as men do. I've been working, playing tennis, since I was three years old. And to be paid less just because of my sex - it doesn't seem fair.

  Serena Williams

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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 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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• My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

  Tom Brady

  Mom, Player, Years

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 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 had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.

  Andy Murray

  Couple, Mean, Space

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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