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Tennis Quotes
Voices from the world of tennis.
These quotes capture the tennis life, from starting the game as a toddler to breaking into a sport that wasn't always common back home. Several reflect the pull of early Competition, including regional championship circuits.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing tennis when I was 4 or 5 years old.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.
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- Nov 07, 2020