Tennis Quotes
874 quotes by 386 authors
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
— Arthur Ashe
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others…
— Arthur Ashe
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
— Arthur Ashe
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
— Arthur Ashe
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
— Arthur Ashe
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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
— Boris Becker
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Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love…
— Boris Becker
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly…
— Hugo Black
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
— Andre Agassi
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First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome.…
— Andre Agassi
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Being number two sucks.
— Andre Agassi
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I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
— Andre Agassi
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But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all…
— Andre Agassi
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I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
— George H. W. Bush
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People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
— Julian Casablancas
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I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
— Amy Chua
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
— Mary McCarthy
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Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a…
— Lloyd Mangrum
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Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.
— Dinah Shore
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Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball…
— Michael Bamberger
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