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“The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.”

Knows I Can Competition Handle Rejection Tennis

“There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.”

Way Bigs Film Numbers Twenties Competition Mediums Spots Tennis Composer Competing I'm Back

Author:Aaron Zigman

“Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.”

People Talking Empty Balls Green Sticks Practicals Obsession Tennis Tennis Balls

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.”

Lasts Beautiful Sports Difficult Football Pure Obsessed Tennis Ballet Sponsors Playing Football

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.”

Sports Golf Tennis Tranquility Inspirational Tennis

Author:Roger Kahn

“This is how you play tennis without the net”

Play Tennis

Author:Sam Harris

“Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.”

Littles Play Light Used Bits Steps Yoga Weight Resistance These Days Tennis Stretching Elevators Pilates Push Ups

Author:Robin Roberts

“Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.”

Happens Winning Bits Clothes Tennis Royal Wimbledon

Author:David Lloyd

“The pace of this match is really accelerating, by which I mean it's getting faster all the time.”

Mean Faster Tennis Pace

Author:David Coleman

“It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.”

People Different Play Actors Tennis Chemistry Different Peoples

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!”

Player Tennis Tennis Player

Author:Randy Jackson

“When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.”

People Asks Cooking Ask Me Tennis Boxing Hobbies

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.”

Want Use Bigs Goal My Own Cities Streets New York Design Balls Tennis New York City Walkers Tennis Balls

Author:Abbey Curran

“As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.”

Ifs Knows Needs Stars Tennis Pipeline

Author:Billie Jean King

“When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.”

Children Ends Today Together Names Fun Week Team Lessons Skills Circles Tennis Drills

Author:Billie Jean King

“I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.”

Children Asks Adults Our Children Your Children Tennis Pathetic Children Playing

Author:Billie Jean King

“I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.”

People Play Seems Half Beats Tennis

Author:Alan Alda

“I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.”

Want Play Kids Brain Serious Beats Tennis

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.”

Mind Body Care Approach Importance Tennis Holistic Holistic Approach

Author:Novak Djokovic

“I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.”

Knows Years Wells Play Spiritual House Couple Ten Summer My Family Tiny Bridges Islands Tennis Good Times Isolated Hobbies Runners Telephones Maine Ferry

Author:Alan Lightman

“There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.”

Way Turns Sports Ability Team Achieve Tennis Expensive Sports Team

Author:Martina Navratilova

“We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.”

“I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.”

Knows Tennis

Author:Donald Young

“We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?”

Knows Mean Figures Tennis

Author:Venus Williams

“It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.”

Mean Tennis

Author:Flavia Pennetta

“The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.”

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Author:Novak Djokovic

“My mom fed us a million balls. Dad took us to tournaments. Couldn't have done it without them. We had a happy tennis family.”

Done Millions Mom Dad Balls My Mom Tennis Feds Tournaments

Author:Mike Bryan

“I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.”

Feels Winning Given Sports Careers Wonderful Expected Tennis Honored

Author:Serena Williams

“Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.”

Wanted House White Prison Criminals Get Better Tennis Resorts Collars White Collar

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.”

Mean Done Happens Next Player Proud Late Tennis Whatever Happens Great American Tennis Player Prodigies

Author:John Isner

“The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.”

Ifs Knows Play Hands Balls Tennis About Yourself

Author:Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

“This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.”

Knows World Stills Real Lost Easy Community Tennis Real World Bubbles Easy To Get

Author:Johanna Konta

“Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.”

Trying Mind Ability Battle Weakness Opponents Tennis Fascinating Facets

Author:Sue Barker

“I don`t know why, but I love the dog eat dog nature of tennis. It`s real, it`s brutal and there`s no hiding place - it's like a one to one street fight. I love the intensity that comes with knowing you walk off court either a winner or a loser. It`s daunting but very exciting. There is no one to blame except yourself, no one cares who comes second.”

Knows Real Care Fighting Walks Knowing Streets Dog Exciting Blame Court Winner Tennis Hiding Loser Intensity Brutal Hiding Place No One Cares

Author:Pete Sampras

“I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.”

War Lost Havens Tennis

Author:Boris Becker

“I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.”

Feels Important Shoes Tennis Heels Unfinished Sweatpants Tennis Shoes

Author:Jenna Lyons

“Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.”

Has Beens Two Answers Century Shoes Philosopher Tennis Pondering Tennis Shoes

Author:Irwin Corey

“Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!”

Challenges Wall Truth Is Defeat Inevitable Tennis

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.”

World Feels Ends Hard Player Hard Work Proud Guitar Lists Tennis Jumping Guitar Player Racket

Author:Gary Hoey

“I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.”

Looks Play Tennis Eyeballs

Author:Carol Burnett

“I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.”

Needs Habit Balls Luck Court Smell Tennis Tennis Balls

Author:Dominika Cibulkova

“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.”

Thinking Comedy Team Tennis Tennis Team

Author:Carrot Top

“I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.”

Reason Problem Left Trouble Late Complicated Tennis Sixteen Arrivals Puberty Testicles

Author:Jonathan Ames

“That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.”

Ends Study Building Goes On Kings Thirds Drinking Coffee Tennis Branches Articles End Times Avenues Burgers Drinking Coffee Burger King

Author:Paul Samuelson

“I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.”

Want Selfish Remembered Accomplishment Tennis Contribution Contribution To Society

Author:Arthur Ashe

“People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.”

“Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.”

Trying Humans Soul Green Court Boundaries Fixed Tennis Human Soul Patches Coffins Acres Rectangles Tennis Courts

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.”

Simple Tennis Simple Life Extravagance

Author:Pete Sampras

“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”

Men Self Seems Court Tennis True Self Tennis Courts

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.”

Fun Enjoy Fans Court Having Fun Tennis Great Tennis

Author:Roger Federer

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