Art Quote by James Lee Burke

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

— James Lee Burke

“If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is…

— Ian McEwan

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you…

— Natalie Goldberg

Sometimes the opponent is too good, sometimes you don't play good. It depends. It's tennis.

— Daniil Medvedev

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people…

— Alan Alda

I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important…

— Mats Wilander

“Tennis is not a game. It's a sport and a puzzle, an endurance test. You do whatever you can to win. it has been…

— Maria Sharapova

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I…

— Jim Courier

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows…

— Johanna Konta

I try to play good tennis all the time.

— Kei Nishikori

I don't watch much tennis, never really have.

— Ashleigh Barty

Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't.

— Andy Jassy