Top 1200 Tennis Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.
I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.
I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.
At the end of the day, it's just a tennis match. It's not the end of the world.
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
I've been on a tennis court all my life. The only thing that's been there longer is the net post.
If you were good at tennis, you were a star in my dad's world.
The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.
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.
Generally, what I miss about tennis now is playing against the guys on the big stadium courts where the crowd are going nuts and roaring like crazy.
When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.
There is no shortcuts. Play your best tennis, give your heart out, and anything can happen.
Amateurism has its place in government, in journalism and also on the tennis court, but lack of expertise means politicians routinely promise far more than they achieve.
Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to
When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
Tennis always fascinated me, because it made every demand: technology, tactics, physique, endurance. The competition of one against one has a very special charm.
I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.
I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.
If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
I love doing core workouts. The core is so important in tennis.
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.'
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.
I kind of learned that it's never over until it's over in tennis.
I didn't know I could even be a professional tennis player, honestly. All this is actually very, very unexpected.
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
Sometimes you're talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and trust that the editors and the animators are going to make it all convincing to the audience. You have to pull a lot from within.
Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
This is our job to play tennis, and be here to focus. And when you're an athlete, we say it's normal that your job is 24/7.
When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.
I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.
My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.
I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.
I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.
In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.
It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
It is for sure a big part of the coach's job to make sure the tennis does not get neglected.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
If I just track Shang-Chi's journey in the context of table tennis in my life, it actually fits perfectly, and that's why I was able to sink into the character so, so seamlessly.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.
What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.
I'm a good tennis player, and I've never done so good on grass.
If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.
Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.
Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
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.
I thought I was decent at table tennis, but when I saw Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling, I thought, 'maybe not'.
First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.
