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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.
~famous tennis quotes 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.
~famous tennis quotes 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.
~famous tennis quotes 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
Forgiving saves the high cost of anger and the higher cost of hating.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
~good sayings about Technology by Richard P. Feynman
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born
~tennis quotes by Anais Nin
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
~motivational quotes about Attitude sayings by Robert M. Pirsig
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
~tennis sayings by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
~famous tennis quotes by Bob Hope
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.
~good sayings about Women by Germaine Greer
All the so-called secrets of success will not work unless you do.
~tennis quotes by Author Unknown
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
~motivational quotes about Baseball sayings by Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough:for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams
~tennis sayings by Pedro Calderon
Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.
~famous tennis quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~good sayings about Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
~tennis quotes by Alfred de Vigny, Réflexions sur la Vérité dans l'Art
Deeds, not creeds, are the true measure of a man.
~motivational quotes about Proverbs sayings by
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
~tennis sayings by Flannery O'Connor
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~famous tennis quotes by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
~good sayings about Funny Saying by Groucho Marx
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
~tennis quotes by William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
~motivational quotes about Conformity sayings by Henrik Ibsen
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
~tennis sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Table - Talk
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