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Tennis Coach Inspirational Quotes (358)

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Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.
Billie Jean King
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I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.
Patrick McEnroe
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If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
Michael Chang
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This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.
Amelie Mauresmo
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It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.
Amelie Mauresmo
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Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
Amelie Mauresmo
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I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
Amelie Mauresmo
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The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
Amelie Mauresmo
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There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
Amelie Mauresmo
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I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.
Althea Gibson
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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
Althea Gibson
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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea Gibson
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It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting
John Newcombe
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Never change a winning game always change a losing one.
Bill Tilden
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Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
Goran Ivanisevic
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Champions take responsibility.
Billie Jean King
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Yannick Noah
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Yannick Noah
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
Yannick Noah
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
Yannick Noah
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It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
Yannick Noah
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After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.
Yannick Noah
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I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
Althea Gibson
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I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.
Goran Ivanisevic
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