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Tennis Coach Inspirational Quotes (358)

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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
John McEnroe
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
Billie Jean King
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Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Althea Gibson
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Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.
Stan Smith
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God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.
Stan Smith
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As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
John McEnroe
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You can tell when someone has been on steroids A guy bulks up, has a new body and never gets tired...You see these guys or girls who come onto the tour talking about their new training programs and their diets where they eat this or that new thingbut they'll never tell you about the drugs they took.
John McEnroe
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All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
Michael Chang
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At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.
Goran Ivanisevic
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No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.
Martina Hingis
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You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
Guy Forget
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
Billie Jean King
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This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.
John McEnroe
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You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
Michael Chang
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To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.
Mats Wilander
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Althea Gibson
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
Yannick Noah
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It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
Billie Jean King
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In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.
Stan Smith
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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Althea Gibson
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
John McEnroe
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At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.
Brad Gilbert
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Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
Ivan Lendl
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To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.
Guy Forget
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