Top 1200 Great Tennis Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.
I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.
I think tennis needs to be reinvented. I think there is a space for two different tours. This exists in many other sports.
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court
I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.
I get bored easily, so in general, I tend to mix up my workouts. I exercise in the gym with a trainer once a week when I'm in town, and I love yoga, golf and tennis.
It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.
I loved dance, but tennis felt more natural to me. Dance did help with my rhythm and balance.
Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.
What don't I miss about tennis? Oh man, the road, the airports, the rain delays, the scheduling, the knots in your stomach, not being able to eat. Things like that.
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
People ask me if I would like my children to play tennis, and I'm, like, 'Hmm. Maybe not.' And that's a bit strange.
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I'm playing my tennis.
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
To play against Serena in a final is something special. You know you must play your best tennis.
As I played a lot of tennis ball cricket, I used to watch Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis a lot.
I go out there because I love tennis and I love playing. To hold the trophy in the end, you know, it's amazing.
It's good in tennis that you don't have to be big or a tall guy to be good. Otherwise I had no chance to get in the top 20.
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
When it rains, I do a lot of indoor exercises; when its pleasant, I play a lot of tennis and do swimming, and opt for outdoor sports and running.
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.
In tennis that's the beauty. You can always suit up the next week and play another tournament and always have the chance to win it.
To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
I'm glad that I can play the tennis that I always wish to play.
I love tennis, but the main thing in my life, is life.
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.
When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
I obviously grew up on a court, but there wasn't any, 'All right, we're going to name him 'Tennis,' and he's going to be a professional.'
I had other coaches when I was younger but my father was there, following all my training. He has seen as much tennis as many coaches on tour.
Changing public perceptions is important. Nobody bats an eyelid in a team sport when a player gets injured and is still getting paid. In tennis, there is nothing like that.
There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.
The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.
I don't have a high-powered life out of work. I like to go to the country for the weekend with the kids and the dog and play tennis. I am very good at turning off.
For me tennis is a sport, you know? It's not a job, it's a sport.
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.
We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?
Sometimes I think the easiest way to introduce what goes into managing the expenses of a tennis career is to take a look at another pro sport and notice some of the differences.
There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
I always show up to the office sweaty! I'll come in between workouts in a tennis skirt drenched in sweat. The only time that I actually look presentable is at meetings.
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.