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  • Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. -- Martina Hingis
  • Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players. -- Anthony Goldbloom
  • 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
  • Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis. -- Chris Evert
  • There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them. -- Daley Thompson
  • The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. -- Nikki Giovanni
  • Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court. -- Tomas Berdych
  • 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
  • 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
  • Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. -- Novak Djokovic
  • Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. -- Novak Djokovic
  • I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now. -- Samantha Stosur
  • As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results. -- Sania Mirza
  • Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory. -- Sania Mirza
  • Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies. -- Sania Mirza
  • Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months. -- Sania Mirza
  • Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different. -- Maria Kirilenko
  • In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. -- Lindsay Davenport
  • I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested. -- Jean-Luc Godard
  • Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think. -- Rafael Nadal
  • There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share. -- Andy Roddick
  • I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man. -- Novak Djokovic
  • Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques. -- Rafael Nadal
  • I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour. -- Pete Sampras
  • What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square. -- Andre Agassi
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