Best Tennis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 23

“This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.”

“Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.”

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“For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.”

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Author:Andy Murray

“I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.”

Thinking Said Bigs Reading Sports Television Paper Coaches Managers Tennis Bubbles They Said Papers Big Picture

Author:Boris Becker

“It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.”

Thinking Reason Play Motivation Lost Walks Tough Reason Why Tennis Private Life

Author:Bjorn Borg

“If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Play Running Fun Active Beach Tennis Holiday Swim Workout

Author:Candice Swanepoel

“An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.”

Ideas Character Stories Forget Player Keys Personality Court Tennis Plot Ducks Bucks Roger Believable Tennis Courts Buck Rogers Daffy Duck

Author:Chuck Jones

“If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.”

Ifs Heart Champion Tennis Championship Heart Of A Champion

Author:Chris Evert

“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”

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Author:Chris Evert

“Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.”

Two Ends Play Three Lost Hours Team Finals Clubs Beach Tennis Weekend Palms Relieved Palm Beach

Author:Wilbur Ross

“To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.”

Ifs Able Focus Honest Projects Being Honest Tennis Time Off

Author:Maria Sharapova

“When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.”

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Author:Roger Federer

“I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.”

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Author:Roger Federer

“You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.”

Want Trying Play Winning Sports Tennis Being The Best

Author:Roger Federer

“I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills I Can Play Shows Problem Today Used Parent Enjoy Watches My Friends Very Good Nervous Tennis Respect Me

Author:Roger Federer

“I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.”

Enjoy Water Study Dinner Tennis Hanging Out Bible Study Mellow Hanging Out With Friends

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.”

Play Running Hills Tennis Swim Intensity Workout Surfing Volleyball Intervals

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.”

Should Littles Games Fun Sports Tennis

Author:Guy Forget

“Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.”

Sports Tennis Marrying

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I don't know whether it's normal or not, but sex has always been something that I take seriously. I would put it higher than tennis on my list of constructive things to do.”

Knows Sex Higher Normal Lists Things To Do Tennis Constructive

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.”

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Author:Martina Navratilova

“People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.”

People Ifs Knows World Heart Fit Training Tennis Physically Fit

Author:Jimmy Connors

“But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?”

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Author:Jimmy Connors

“No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.”

Said Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Tennis Grandparent Involvement

Author:Jimmy Connors

“Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.”

Ifs Kind Real Football Basketball Baseball East Tennis Real Things Playing Baseball

Author:Jimmy Connors

“I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.”

Law Ought Teeth Tennis More Time

Author:Jimmy Connors

“With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.”

Involved Concern Tennis Swirls

Author:Jimmy Connors

“It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.”

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Author:Jimmy Connors

“All I cared about in tennis was winning.”

Winning Tennis

Author:Pete Sampras

“My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.”

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Author:Andre Agassi

“Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.”

Giving Self Player Tennis Self Absorbed Give And Take Tennis Player

Author:Chris Evert

“It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.”

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Author:Jennifer Capriati

“What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.”

Want Winning Tennis

Author:Jennifer Capriati

“There are not many Irish people playing tennis!”

People Tennis

Author:Goran Ivanisevic

“I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.”

Ifs Needs Feels I Can Play Running Hours Five Week Fit Exercise Shapes Tennis Sweat Monday Friday One Hour

Author:Bjorn Borg

“When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.”

Wanted Tennis Retired

Author:Bjorn Borg

“You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.”

Knows Growing Up Growing Taught Rain Court Weather Tennis Clay Sweden

Author:Bjorn Borg

“I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.”

Ifs Loses Sleep Tennis

Author:Ivan Lendl

“Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.”

Sports Differences Huge Independent Coaches Tennis Entity

Author:Ivan Lendl

“I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.”

Trying Kind Feelings Player Tennis Articles Open Mind Open Minded Guessing

Author:Jim Courier

“I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.”

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Author:Jim Courier

“I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.”

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Author:Jim Courier

“I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.”

Thinking Trying Important Focus Tennis

Author:Stefan Edberg

“Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.”

Knows Wells Two Helping Games Sports Months Balls Tennis Hitting Two Months

Author:Stefan Edberg

“Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.”

Wells Succeed Tennis

Author:Stefan Edberg

“One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.”

Play Kids Jobs One Day Tennis Another Day

Author:Martina Hingis

“I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.”

People Littles Play Might Given Sports Chance Special Tennis Something Special

Author:Martina Hingis

“It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.”

Country Play Boys Tennis Unusual

Author:Novak Djokovic

“I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.”

Long I Can Young Guy Havens Willing Good Things Tennis Young Guys

Author:Novak Djokovic

“I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.”

Knows Trying Years I Can Lying Next Enjoy Hopefully Tennis

Author:Novak Djokovic

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