Quotes about Tennis

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I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys” — and here I’m really wondering if the pun on prose conso — Andrew Durbin, Mature Themes
We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear. — Lorde, Lorde - Pure Heroine Songbook
During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings — Rafael Nadal i Farreras
You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to — Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it — C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of b — Peter Bodo, Courts of Babylon
She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and he — Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do a — David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
We made a successful, last-minute effort to get the French Open many years ago, when the USA network bailed on it. I rem — Patrick McEnroe, Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from Twenty Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches
The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center — David Foster Wallace
Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young p — Andre Agassi, Open
I have no sense of humor about losing — Rafael Nadal, Rafa
LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caus — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Masculinity comes from your look, all the way down to your attitude. It's a big part of being a tennis player. Even thou — Milos Raonic
I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals — Martina Hingis
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
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis. — Roger Federer
Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want — Pico Iyer
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. — Billie Jean King
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. — Jason Statham