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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. -- Bill Gates
I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience. -- Maria Sharapova
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier. -- Rafael Nadal
I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable. -- Roger Federer
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
Being number two sucks. -- Andre Agassi
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win. -- Andre Agassi
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players. -- Mignon McLaughlin
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' -- Arthur Ashe
Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us. -- Anna Kournikova
As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results. -- Sania Mirza
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence. -- Gabriela Sabatini
When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player? -- Anna Kournikova
In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost. -- Venus Williams
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. -- Martha Stewart
I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality. -- Serena Williams
There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. -- Anna Kournikova
A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me. -- Stan Smith
Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience. -- Josh Lucas
Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi. -- Jurgen Klopp
I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it. -- Boris Kodjoe
You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning. -- Novak Djokovic
It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. -- Anne Lamott
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. -- Bernard DeVoto
I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket -- Sania Mirza
There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player. -- Rod Laver
I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player. -- George H. W. Bush
It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. -- Anna Kournikova
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. -- Sally Ride
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. -- Jonathan Ames
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. -- Chris Evert
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player. -- David Geffen
You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them. -- Sania Mirza
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. -- Dakota Fanning
I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made. -- Rafael Nadal
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
I think my family needs me more than anybody else, and tennis doesn't need me anymore. I respect my wife a lot for taking all that in. She said, 'I didn't marry a tennis player; you'd retired.' Now it's time to do something else. -- Thomas Muster
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. -- Matthew Perry
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
I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college. -- Jim Courier
At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time. -- Oleg Cassini
Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast. -- Marc Blucas
Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that. -- Gautam Gambhir
As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it. -- Bjorn Borg
No tennis player is perfect. Even if you're world #1, I don't think, you still have things to improve on, and I'm not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we'll see how it goes. -- Sania Mirza
Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.' -- James Roday
I'm actually a pretty good tennis player! -- Randy Jackson
I actually wanted to be a tennis player. -- Constance Jablonski
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. -- Meg Rosoff
I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis. -- Ion Tiriac
My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer. -- Doug Davidson
To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours. -- Guy Forget
I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win. -- Novak Djokovic
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. -- Marat Safin
If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good. -- Helen Wills
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? -- Anna Kournikova
My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting. -- Leander Paes
People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world ... have you thought about polo?' -- Rob Schneider
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. -- Caroline Wozniacki
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is. -- Maria Sharapova
I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man. -- Novak Djokovic
I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist. -- Simon Fuller
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. -- Rafael Nadal
Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place. -- Boris Becker
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. -- John McEnroe
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player. -- Jack Nicholson
The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers. -- David Feherty
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him. -- John McEnroe
I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. -- John Newcombe
People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity. -- Pete Sampras
I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music. -- Aaron Zigman
For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player. -- Andy Murray
People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity -- Pete Sampras
As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups. -- Matt Kuchar
As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups. -- Matt Kuchar
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done. -- John Isner
My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan. -- Tom Brady
If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way. -- Monica Seles
He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you. -- David Foster Wallace
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31. -- Samantha Stosur
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. -- Matt Kuchar
I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind. -- Andy Roddick

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