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Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam! — Don King

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist. — Arthur Ashe

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me. — Pete Sampras

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out. — Jack Nicklaus

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis. — Ion Tiriac

In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis. — Gabriela Sabatini

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. — Novak Djokovic

I play better tennis because the court is there. — Robert Frost

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition. — Amy Chua

I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis. — Jennifer Hudson

I want to play tennis and fornicate. — Robert Plant

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies. — Serena Williams

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it. — Roger Federer

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different. — Tom Hiddleston

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano. — John C. Hawkes

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense. — Carl Hagelin

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey. — Patrick Chan

I don't play tennis at all. — Brooklyn Decker

I started when I was 4, but I didn't play seriously until I was 8. — Kathy Rinaldi

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play. — Shawnee Smith

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that. — Martina Hingis

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. — Goran Ivanisevic

I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing. — Garrett Neff

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have. — Andre Agassi

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis. — Andre Agassi

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. — Roger Federer

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth. — Andy Roddick

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.'
- Martina Navratilova — Harsha Bhogle

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court. — Isaac Asimov

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it. — Andy Murray

I play each point like my life depends on it. — Rafael Nadal

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis. — Anastasia Myskina

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control. — Brian Kilmeade

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality. — Richard Krajicek

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player. — David Geffen

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. — Margaret Halsey

I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day. — Toni Garrn

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling. — Serena Williams

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis. — Carol Burnett

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis. — Pierre Berbizier

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him. — John McEnroe

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams. — Sloane Stephens

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano
and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone. — Christine Truman

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose. — Vic Braden

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up. — Andy Murray

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. — Walter Cronkite

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing ... oh yes and swimming. — Roger Moore

Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me. — Steffi Graf

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play. — Shawnee Smith

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court. — Dean Cain

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? — Anna Kournikova

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people. — Oleg Cassini

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. — Jimmy Connors

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be. — Venus Williams

If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can. — Mark Billingham

Do you play tennis? Anarchists play a lot of tennis. And Counts do too. Counts and anarchists are the kind of people who, right now, play tennis most. — Unai Elorriaga

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever. — Novak Djokovic

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before. — John McEnroe

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically. — Magnus Scheving

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost

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 who are as bad as I am. — Alan Alda

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent — John McEnroe

Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day. — Bethany Hamilton

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone. — Rafael Nadal

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis. — Anna Kournikova

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today. — Tim Henman

Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once. — Jimmy Connors

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job, — Gabriela Sabatini

I think I'll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that ... I still think my best tennis is still to come. — Justine Henin

It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them. — Sergio Garcia

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis. — Virginia Wade

The trouble is you can't play many matches when you lose them. — Jelena Dokic

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis. — Venus Williams

The serve was invented so that the net could play. — Bill Cosby

Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked. — Mary Carillo

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music. — Bill Mumy

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. — James M. Barrie

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy. — Gabriela Sabatini

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play. — Thomas Watson

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in. — Robin Williams

This is how you play tennis without the net — Sam Harris

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats. — Vicente Del Bosque

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is. — Vijay Singh

I lived in Hollywood long enough to
learn to play tennis and become a star,
but I never felt it was my home. — Paulette Goddard

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself. — Harrison Ford

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter. — John Lindsay

I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it. — Frankie Valli

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively. — Lisa Rinna

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out. — Lleyton Hewitt

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. — Jason Statham

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam. — Agnieszka Radwanska

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity. — Caroline Winberg