I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.
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Related He did tennis as a favor and did a great job. But now I have to find a tennis coach. ADAM KLESS I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can stil... OLEG CASSINI The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportu... VENUS WILLIAMS It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, &... ERNIE ELS Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries ar... SANIA MIRZA Top Spin gives tennis fans and gamers a tennis experience to celebrate with stunning visuals and all... GREG THOMAS If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended ... MARAT SAFIN I found a lot of other people who were interested in creating a greater tennis presence in Hamilton ... HELEN MOSER PETERSEN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn&... RAFAEL NADAL I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the c... LLEYTON HEWITT I often find that pundits are quite negative... not just in tennis, but in sport in general. I just ... ANDY MURRAY I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys a... NOVAK DJOKOVIC It was a tough one, ... She really took her chances and I thought she played great tennis. I also th... AMELIE MAURESMO With tennis, you're out there and it's just you. It's either all your fault or it's all because of y... BLAKE POWERS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I miss college golf, but the anticipation of turning pro and now being a professional is a great fee... NICK MASON If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chan... JIM COURIER Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be w... BJORN BORG Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made wi... LARS VON TRIER There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren... NIECY NASH You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always tho... NASH GRIER Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses. UNKNOWN I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE I thought I was going to be a tennis player when I was a boy. I had a coach and everything and playe... ADOLFO CAMBIASO Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn't good enough, so I became an actor. S... MATTHEW PERRY Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our t... VENUS WILLIAMS I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging o... CAITLYN JENNER I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as pe... RON MOODY I think there's pressure when you come in after a great coach like John Miller. But it's not pressur... ANDY HEDRICK Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play te... VENUS WILLIAMS There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do... KENNY BAKER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We're a little bit of a guinea pig, but I think that's great. The sport has been hurt by the fact th... BUTCH BUCHHOLZ I'm proud of all I have achieved in this sport. It has been many years of sacrifice in which I have ... CONCHITA MARTINEZ We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I... DANIELA HANTUCHOVA Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Y... LORDE They are not tennis players. They came from soccer. Those (are) No. 3, 4 and 5 spots, so I really do... JOE DICKSON It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA Tennis for me is the same whether I'm playing in a tournament or instructing, ... I just have a pass... LUKE JENSEN It was like bulls banging heads. He brought out the best and the worst in me and I like to think I d... JIMMY CONNORS In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don... DAVID GEFFEN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I'm introduced today as Iowa State's wrestling coach because of the selfless sacrifices of my colleg... CAEL SANDERSON Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real peopl... DAVID CRANE Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning ANONYMOUS I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a s... KRISTEN STEWART It's a family sport literally. You can go out on the weekend and play recreational tennis. You can p... MASHONA WASHINGTON All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own spee... HARUKI MURAKAMI I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off p... SAMANTHA STOSUR Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had ... DUANE MICHALS I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want t... CHRISTIAN SLATER Just a little fling, and that's over with, and now I think I'm making my name with tennis, ... So th... ROBBY GINEPRI A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespa... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men a... ANDRE AGASSI You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing th... ANDY RODDICK One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ... GARY F EVANS... All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm ... SERENA WILLIAMS I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like th... JOHNNY DEPP Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happ... HOLT MCCALLANY
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it is wanted. Men pay severely wh... DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation. DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw
away his vote by voting either for... DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than
in any other gown in the world. DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece... DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ... TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took... DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk. DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr... DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? DOUGLAS ADAMS If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w... DOUGLAS ADAMS My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq... DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. DOUGLAS ADAMS Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe... TOM DOUGLAS