#tennis

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. ↗

— Chris Evert

#certainly #giving #player #relationships #self-absorbed

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. ↗

— Chris Evert

#arrogant #champion #inflexible #kind #self-absorbed

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. ↗

— Chris Evert

#i #plays #robot #she #tennis

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court. ↗

— Dean Cain

#better #blown #court #denzel #either

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. ↗

— Albert Finney

#characters #each #film #got #haven

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court. ↗

— Brad Gilbert

#did #good #good job #i #job

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. ↗

— Roger Federer

#because #best #love #play #tennis

Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#game #high #high quality #i #look

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bricks #fact #fragments #had #improvisation

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves. ↗

— Venus Williams

#career #course #done #great #great career