TENNIS QUOTES
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The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.
—Borotra,Jean
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Little old ladies in tennis shoes.
—Mosk, Stanley
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To theTennis Court, and there saw the King play at tennis and others; but to see how the King's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight.
—Pepys, Samuel
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We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
—Webster,John
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If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.
—Gullit, Ruud
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The self is now the sacred cow of American culture, self- esteem is sacrosanct, and so we labour to turn arts education into a system in which no one can fail. In the same spirit, tennis could be shorn of its elitist overtones: you just get rid of the net.
—Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
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Tennis is a game of no use in itself.
—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
—Frost, Robert Lee
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The real pitch lake is simply about two hundred asphalt tennis courts, in very bad condition, set in the midst of some gently undulating green meadows. I am inclined to ask for my money back. —Huxley, Aldous Leonard
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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.
—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
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