Best Tennis Wisdom
874 Tennis quotes by 357 unique authors
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Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.
— Jennifer Capriati
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
— Jimmy Connors
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I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
— Goran Ivanisevic
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I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
— Monica Seles
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I play each point like my life depends on it.
— Rafael Nadal
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My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
— Venus Williams
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
— Arthur Ashe
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Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
— Venus Williams
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Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match…
— Andre Agassi
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Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
— Boris Becker
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You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't…
— Martina Navratilova
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You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
— Roger Federer
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You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each…
— Andre Agassi
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The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.
— Unknown Author
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I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to…
— Novak Djokovic
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I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.
— Bill Mumy
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Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's…
— Henry Beard
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I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
— Unknown Author
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Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't…
— Haruki Murakami
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I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]
— Shahar Pe'er
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My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also…
— Juliet Mills
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within…
— Bernard DeVoto
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It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
— Vijay Singh
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There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.
— Rod Laver
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I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
— Andre Agassi
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