“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.” WorldHandsKidsBeautifulGamesPerfectWifeScriptsHillsGet BetterTennisLos AngelesTomsTurned DownA Perfect WorldBeautiful WifeTennis Game Author:Matthew Perry
“I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It's magnificently made.” MadeRunningBeautifulEnjoyMachinesBlueShoesDrivingTennisItalianClothingsJeansElegantRamaVery BeautifulShortsPorscheBlue JeansBeautiful ExperiencesRunning Shoes Author:Frederick Lenz
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).” PlayMightBeautifulSportsLevelsOpinionTeamBasketballWeightFighterDamageTennisBoxingDivisionIntensitySubmitBrutalMetaphysicalAbstractionPrimalLightersReally BeautifulSports TeamFormalityPhysical Beauty Author:David Foster Wallace
“John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.” MenBeautifulSportsPlayerColorTvsGeniusBlueAll TimeTennisExceptionGapsAdsNormCommentaryLameTennis PlayerBlazersVolley Author:David Foster Wallace
“If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with so much discipline, so much concentration and someone who likes to put a lot of passion into every point. Words fail to come out of me to describe his game appropriately. I've rarely seen anyone who approaches a ball with so much attention. With such passion and joy that it makes great fun to watch him. With him, you can associate everything that makes tennis so beautiful.” IfsPlayBeautifulJoyPassionGamesFunAttentionWatchesFailingDisciplineApproachBallsIncrediblesAthleteLikesTennisConcentrationAdmirationAssociatesAmazementNadal Author:Steffi Graf