Free tennis sayings, quotes and quotations
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
~tennis sayings by Nat Hentoff
Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding.
~inspirational sayings about Sports quotes by John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
~tennis quotes by Pete Sampras
Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.
~famous quotes about Love by Author Unknown
Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
~tennis sayings by Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949
The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.
~tennis sayings by Author Unknown
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
~inspirational sayings about Tennis quotes by Yannick Noah
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
~tennis quotes by Elliot Chaze
Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.
~famous quotes about Tennis by Eugene Scott
If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
~tennis sayings by Randall Tex Cobb
Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades.
~tennis sayings by Richard Evans
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
~inspirational sayings about Poetry quotes by Robert Frost, 1935
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
~tennis quotes by Billie Jean King
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 wait until I reached 50 to start again.
~famous quotes about Age by Hugo L. Black
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 changes everything.
~tennis sayings by Michael Bamberger
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
~tennis sayings by Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.
~good sayings about Racism by Author Unknown
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.
~tennis quotes by A.W. Hare & J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
~motivational quotes about Truth sayings by Simone de Beauvoir
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
~tennis sayings by Alice Thomas Ellis
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
~tennis sayings by Albert Camus
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
~good sayings about Attitude by Dale Carnegie
The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.
~tennis quotes by Fred Barling, Humorscope
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.
~motivational quotes about Science sayings by Isidor Isaac Rabi
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assum
~tennis sayings by Francis John McConnell
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.
~tennis sayings by Bernand De Voto, Fortune, June 1947
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~good sayings about Animal Rights by Thomas A. Edison
Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass?
~tennis quotes by Letter to Playboy magazine, February 1987
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
~motivational quotes about Jewelry sayings by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks, 1869
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~tennis sayings by W.C. Fields
To teach is to learn twice.
~tennis sayings by Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
~good sayings about Gardens by May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968
There is no point at which you can say, Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.
~tennis quotes by Carrie Fisher
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work
~motivational quotes about Football sayings by Vince Lombardi
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind"Pooh!" he whispered"Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw"I just wanted to be sure of you."
~tennis sayings by A.A. Milne
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