Tennis and life quotes:

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Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it. -- Maria Sharapova
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me. -- Billie Jean King
I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that. -- Luke Mitchell
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis. -- Roger Federer
I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years. -- Novak Djokovic
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water. -- Bethany Hamilton
It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.' -- Ernie Els
Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport! -- Sania Mirza
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
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. -- Jimmy Connors
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. -- Billie Jean King
I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life. -- Michael Chang
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
I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false. -- Caterina Murino
I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was. -- Luke Mitchell
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
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. -- Samantha Stosur
I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated. -- Samantha Stosur
My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have. -- Phil Robertson
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 feel like my whole life only tennis. -- Li Na
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life. -- Serena Williams
Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. -- Gabriela Sabatini
Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving. -- Arthur Ashe
I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis. -- Lilly Pulitzer
When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life. -- Bjorn Borg
Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis. -- Daniela Hantuchova
Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things. -- Rafael Nadal
I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me. -- Pete Sampras
Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match -- Jimmy Connors
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that. -- Julian Casablancas
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. -- Anna Kournikova
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day. -- Serena Williams
The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal. -- Marat Safin
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 think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis. -- Rafael Nadal
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. -- Andre Agassi
Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life. -- Novak Djokovic
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis. -- Novak Djokovic
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
Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis. -- Glenn Ford
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

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