Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.
All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.
I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.
I'll come in from playing tennis in the morning and eat leftover grilled chicken.
We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.
Especially with athletic pubalgia and the patellar tendonitis - I used to bowl six balls and then I used to be gasping for breath. And there would be pain all over the place.
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
I want to play my best tennis and see how far I can go.
Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.
I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.
My boy always wants to play football, but I have to hide the balls. I lock them in a bedroom; otherwis,e he will just kick them all night!
With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.
I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.
When you're going good or bad, those balls that trickle through the hole or fall in between people, that mentally boosts how you feel, how you're playing.
I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.
My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.
I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.
Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.
Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.
Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.
Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.
My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.
I feel like I'm doing some great things for American tennis.
Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.
It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
People outside of tennis, all the famous actors and everyone, knows Wimbledon.
Tennis is such a physically demanding sport, and it can be so rough on the body at the pro level.
If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.
I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.
If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.
You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.
I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.
I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.
I do tennis ball drills mostly for bouncers, for my muscle memory as well.
It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.
I don't practise it that much, maybe two or three times a week. It's a natural skill that I have, to hit long balls, so I don't need to practise it every day.
In the U.S. I can concentrate all the time on playing tennis, doing my training and all the important stuff.
I grew up your classic nerd who was not good at throwing balls or kicking them. I was good at reading stories by myself. That was my specialty as a child.
I had to focus on my music career. But tennis has always been a passion.
Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.
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