Best Tennis Proverbs
874 Tennis quotes by 357 unique authors
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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that…
— Andre Agassi
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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even…
— Andre Agassi
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In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement,
— Andre Agassi
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First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport…
— Andre Agassi
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Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very…
— Andre Agassi
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I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very…
— John Newcombe
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I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.
— John Newcombe
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When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
— Chris Evert
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Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
— Venus Williams
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A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a…
— Stan Smith
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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the…
— Tom Ford
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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…
— Boris Johnson
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The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
— Steffi Graf
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I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is…
— Steffi Graf
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To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.
— Mats Wilander
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Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and…
— Mark Driscoll
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Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting…
— David Soul
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The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or…
— Robert Redford
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
— Jim Courier
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Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.…
— Laurie Helgoe
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We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like…
— Layne Staley
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You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe.…
— Novak Djokovic
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I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!
— Maria Sharapova
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In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.
— Venus Williams
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I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry…
— Roger Federer
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