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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. -- Billie Jean King
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. -- Mitch Hedberg
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. -- Russell Lynes
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. -- Jacques Barzun
I fear no one, but respect everyone. -- Roger Federer
Tennis just a game, family is forever. -- Serena Williams
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work -- Andre Agassi
The serve was invented so that the net could play. -- Bill Cosby
Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy. -- Rafael Nadal
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. -- Chris Evert
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. -- Arthur Ashe
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. -- Arthur Ashe
This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head. -- Phyllis Diller
The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. -- Martina Navratilova
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. -- Arthur Ashe
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. -- Andre Agassi
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. -- Elliott Chaze
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. -- Rod Laver
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it. -- Monica Seles
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. -- Jimmy Connors
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. -- Yannick Noah
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. -- Virginia Graham
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. -- James M. Barrie
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. -- Hugo Black
Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense. -- John McEnroe
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. -- Chris Evert
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. -- Virginia Wade
Tennis is physical chess. -- Rita Mae Brown
Tennis has given me soul. -- Martina Navratilova
Tennis is the loneliest sport -- Andre Agassi
Tennis is more commercial these days. -- Lindsay Davenport
Tennis lets you talk while you're playing. -- Jane Kaczmarek
Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development. -- Jim Courier
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. -- Roger Kahn
Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself. -- Jim Courier
Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness. -- Virginia Wade
Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing. -- Phyllis Diller
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life. -- Serena Williams
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that. -- Sabine Lisicki
Tennis is a world out of touch with reality -- Sebastien Grosjean
Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. -- Gabriela Sabatini
Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States. -- Pete Sampras
I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships. -- Tracy Austin
Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am. -- Jennifer Capriati
Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. -- Chris Evert
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person. -- Andy Murray
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be. -- Monica Seles
Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it. -- Phyllis Diller
Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it. -- Maria Sharapova
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands. -- Novak Djokovic
Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie. -- Andre Agassi
Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low. -- John McEnroe
Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. -- Venus Williams
I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket -- Sania Mirza
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone. -- Rafael Nadal
I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors. -- W. P. Kinsella
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. -- Boris Becker
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of. -- Ronda Rousey
Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance. -- Li Na
Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court. -- Andy Roddick
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings. -- David Ferrer
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. -- Billie Jean King
There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control. -- Rafael Nadal
Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think. -- Rafael Nadal
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. -- Bill Tilden
Tennis is more than just shots. It's about being clutch and beating the people on the other side of the net. -- Jim Courier
Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare. -- Pete Sampras
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. -- Andre Agassi
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. -- Anna Kournikova
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. -- Doug Davidson
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. -- Arthur Ashe
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. -- Ivan Lendl
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever. -- Novak Djokovic
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. -- Chris Evert
Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds. -- Monica Seles
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis. -- Lleyton Hewitt
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. -- Chris Paul
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. -- Boris Becker
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. -- Rita Mae Brown
Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis. -- Jimmy Connors
Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men. -- Summer Sanders
Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me. -- Steffi Graf
Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court. -- Venus Williams
Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill. -- Andre Agassi
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. -- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead. -- Jarod Kintz
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up. -- Michael B. Jordan
I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts. -- Sania Mirza
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis. -- Roger Federer
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. -- Andy Murray
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. -- Roger Federer
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. -- Rebel Wilson
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically. -- Pete Sampras
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. -- Chris Evert
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance. -- Venus Williams
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. -- Venus Williams
I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active - jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. -- Roger Federer
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better. -- Stanislas Wawrinka
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. -- Sania Mirza
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.' -- Joseph Murray
You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I'll still have a lot of friends to watch. I'll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I'll probably miss the tennis more. -- Andy Roddick
I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. -- Roger Federer
My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain. -- Dakota Fanning
It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. -- Samantha Stosur
I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa. -- Virat Kohli
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. -- Samantha Stosur
I started tennis around age 2. -- Tracy Austin
I love tennis, love it! -- David Oyelowo
I've played too many tennis hours. -- Lindsay Davenport
tennis is a 100-mph chess match. -- Gabriela Sabatini
I love seeing tennis up close. -- Jim Parsons
I have a strong tennis arm. -- Bess Truman
I don't play tennis at all. -- Brooklyn Decker
I'm actually a pretty good tennis player! -- Randy Jackson
I'm not involved in tennis but committed. -- Martina Navratilova
Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked. -- Mary Carillo
China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football. -- Berti Vogts
Nobody actually played tennis in my family. -- Novak Djokovic

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