Tennis Quotes

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

Pancho Gonzales

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I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

Constance Jablonski

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My kids know the importance of being active - and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside - and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.

Laila Ali

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Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Bradley Whitford

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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

Hannah Mills

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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Arthur Ashe

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When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'

Garbine Muguruza

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Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.

Shawnee Smith

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I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

Carl Hagelin

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I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.

Shannon Elizabeth

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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Tullian Tchividjian

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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

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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

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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

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Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

Maria Sharapova

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I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

Andre Agassi

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I've played too many tennis hours.

Lindsay Davenport

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I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.

John McEnroe

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I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

Li Na

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As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Robert Reich

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Tennis was more than a passing interest, but I found my ability didn't measure up to these West Coast kids who had played 12 months a year and taken it much more seriously than I.

Kevin Warsh

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When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Anna Kournikova

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To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

Guy Forget

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I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

Andy Murray

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