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Tennis Quotes by Rod Laver
- The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'
- There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.
- I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is…
- An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
- Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the…
- Staying interested in a match is a lot harder than many people think. Throughout my career, I've always had trouble in the early rounds of…
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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
- I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. — Arthur Ashe
- Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. — Arthur Ashe
- Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. — Boris Becker
- Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because… — Boris Becker
- When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully… — Hugo Black
- What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. — Andre Agassi
- 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… — Andre Agassi
- Being number two sucks. — Andre Agassi
- I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis. — Andre Agassi