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“The serve was invented so that the net could play.”

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“What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.”

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Author:James M. Barrie

“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.”

Wells Important Desire Winning Quality Champion Tennis Staying Stay Strong Tennis Player Motivational Tennis Inspirational Tennis Tennis Team

Author:John McEnroe

“Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.”

Ifs Would Be Given Sports Streets Machines Exciting Corners East Tennis Pitching Firing Street Corners

Author:Jimmy Connors

“I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.”

Thinking Should Looks Sports Tennis

Author:Anna Kournikova

“It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.”

Knows World Mean Fighting Winning Challenges Hurt Player Beats Competition Titles Tennis It Hurts Best Players

Author:Andre Agassi

“Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.”

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Author:Billie Jean King

“Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.”

Love Tears Breaths Definitions Thee Tennis Score Love Life Zero Definition Of Love

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.”

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Author:Virginia Graham

“In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.”

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Author:Elliott Chaze

“Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.”

Who I Am Tennis

Author:Jennifer Capriati

“The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.”

Failing Balls Court Bounds Primaries Borders Tennis Neighborhood Conception

Author:Elliott Chaze

“The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.”

Interesting Tennis Pairs Twins Wisconsin Funny Tennis

Author:Dan Maskell

“These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .”

Left Boys Balls Tennis Marvellous Left Handed Funny Tennis

Author:Max Robertson

“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”

“On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Play Mother Left Mets Daughter Excited Dinner Indian Tennis Mutual Amazed Preparing Wayne Gretzky

Author:Milos Raonic

“If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.”

Ifs Needs Matter Winning Sports Sides Training Preparation Tennis Wrestling

Author:Andre Agassi

“Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.”

Knows Feels Has Beens Games Brain Figures Balls Instinct Tennis Wrestling Angle

Author:Billie Jean King

“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.”

Games Percent Competition Scared Tennis Concentration Wrestling Ninety

Author:Chris Evert

“I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.”

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Author:Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.”

“Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Artist Reading Games Stuff Watches Mess Tennis Bad Stuff

Author:James Lee Burke

“The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.”

People Children Matter School Sports Common Football Built Our Children Everyday Tennis Britain Phenomenon Urban Uncles Cricket Common Experience

Author:Arthur Hopcraft

“It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well.”

Feels Wells Mean Stills Hard Play Home Team Court Titles Tennis Centre Up And Down Wimbledon

Author:Petra Kvitova

“I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket”

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Author:Sania Mirza

“Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!”

Trying Would Be Dog Eating Balls Treasure Golden Tennis Throwing Chips Potatoes Peanuts Dog Lover Potato Chips Retrievers Greatest Treasure Tennis Balls Golden Retrievers

Author:Roger Caras

“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia.”

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Author:Jelena Jankovic

“I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends”

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Author:Eugenie Bouchard

“I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.”

Knows Way Happens Let Me Tables Very Good China Tennis I Am Pretty Table Tennis

Author:Anastasia Myskina

“I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.”

Enjoy Practice Serious My Friends Golf Range Tennis Hanging Out Swimming Friend Love I Love Swimming

Author:Mila Kunis

“Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.”

Decision Responsibility Accepting Taught Lessons Consequence Balls Tennis Life Lesson

Author:Billie Jean King

“Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.”

Years Wanted Sports Tennis Skirts

Author:Billie Jean King

“I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.”

Thinking Way Feels Art Moving Form Audience Player Capable Absolutes Sensual Performing Tennis Knowledgeable Euphoria

Author:Billie Jean King

“Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.”

Pressure Privilege Tennis

Author:Billie Jean King

“I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.”

Kids School Hot Court Girlfriend Tennis Laughed Awkward Geek Braces Hot Girl Tennis Courts

Author:Josh Brolin

“I love seeing tennis up close.”

Seeing Tennis

Author:Jim Parsons

“I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.”

Self Games Winning Imagination Break Limits Roots Infinite Disappear Tennis Execution Break Through

Author:David Foster

“Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.”

Trying Challenges Focus Treats Track Tennis Get Back Inactivity Relapse Back On Track

Author:Jimmy Connors

“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.”

Love Sports Clean Tennis Guts New Yorkers Spills Wimbledon Motivational Tennis Inspirational Tennis

Author:Jimmy Connors

“I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.”

Way Want Trying I Can Different Play Kids Remember Growing Up Growing Lessons Hollywood Piano Get Better Tennis Piano Lesson

Author:Elle Fanning

“I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.”

Long Enough Play Home Stars Felt Hollywood Tennis

Author:Paulette Goddard

“Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.”

Ifs Giving Giving Up Tennis Throwing Never Giving Up

Author:Glenn Ford

“I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.”

I Can Play Girl Basketball Comfortable Shoes Tennis Heels Tennis Shoes

Author:Kyla Pratt

“In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?”

Lasts Levels Watches Week Clubs Corporate Shirts Tennis

Author:Ron Livingston

“The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.”

Way Tennis Invites

Author:John Forsythe

“Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.”

Play Turns Games Sports Levels Acting Setting Settings Opponents Tennis

Author:Shawnee Smith

“Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.”

Enough Play Today Fall Car Accidents Honestly Tennis Fall Back Car Accident

Author:Serena Williams

“I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.”

Knows Mean Littles Wanted Acting Saws Tennis Guts My Sister Toms Turner

Author:Serena Williams

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