Tennis Quotes - page 19

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe. (Georges Clemenceau)
In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets. View quote
Dolly Parton
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. View quote
Joseph Heller
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net. View quote
Steven Pinker
I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. View quote
Albert Finney
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. View quote
Martha Stewart
I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player. View quote
George H. W. Bush
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. View quote
Chloë Sevigny
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror. View quote
Jon Bon Jovi
I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. (Elton John)
It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. View quote
Anne Lamott
The improved performances at Commonwealth Games, London Olympics and world tournaments by chess, billiards, snooker badminton and tennis players are evidence of the improved progress that we have made. View quote
Anil Kumble
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different. View quote
Tom Hiddleston
it is true that you may fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all of the people all the time... dogs, on the other hand, with them all you need to do is flick your wrist and they run off looking for some stupid tennis ball. View quote
Darby Conley
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. View quote
Martin Amis
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. View quote
Jesse Jackson
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. View quote
Walter Cronkite
He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you. View quote
David Foster Wallace
My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan. View quote
Tom Brady
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs. (Michael Chabon)
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach. View quote
Tom Ford
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids. View quote
Floyd Mayweather
Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Men hate to lose. I beat my husband once at tennis. I asked him, Will we ever make love again He said, Yes.... but not with each other. View quote
Rita Rudner