A Quote by Matthew Ashford

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

Matthew Ashford

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Matthew Ashford
American - Actor
Born: January 29, 1960

I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn't played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn't the most popular sport in Venezuela.

Garbine Muguruza

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

Andy Roddick

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Tullian Tchividjian

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

Mats Wilander

Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.

Paul Reiser

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Gabriela Sabatini

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Novak Djokovic

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.

Josh Brolin

If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

Marat Safin

I used to play tennis growing up and then didn't play for a good 10 years. I've picked up the sport again and I absolutely love it.

Andi Dorfman

Just recently, the administration of Barack Obama, which has broken all sorts of records in regards to deportation, picked up a Guatemalan man living here [in U.S]. I think he had been living here for twenty-five years, had a family, a business, and so on. He had fled from the Mayan region and they picked him up and deported him. To me, that's really sick.

Noam Chomsky

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Jonathan Pryce

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

Don Yaeger

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that's awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?