Quotes and Sayings About Tennis
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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
-- Boris Becker -
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
-- Boris Becker -
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
-- Boris Becker -
Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.
-- Boris Becker -
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
-- Boris Becker -
Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.
-- Boris Becker -
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
-- Boris Becker -
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
-- Boris Johnson -
Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.
-- Brad Gilbert -
I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
-- Brad Gilbert -
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
-- Bradley Whitford -
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?
-- C. J. Cherryh -
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
-- Carol Channing -
Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
-- Caroline Wozniacki -
It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
-- Caroline Wozniacki -
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
-- Chris Evert -
Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.
-- Chris Evert -
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
-- Chris Evert -
In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.
-- Chris Evert -
... after being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.
-- Chris Evert -
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.
-- Chris Evert -
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
-- Chris Evert -
Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.
-- Chris Evert -
It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
-- Christine Taylor -
He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.
-- Christine Truman -
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
-- Christopher Bollen -
John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
-- Clive James
