Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
I'll let the racket do the talking.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
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