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Definition of Tennis

Tennis

A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.

To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

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Tennis Quotations

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
Arthur Ashe

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
Arthur Ashe

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Sally Ride

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Sally Ride

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
Pete Sampras

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
Pete Sampras

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
Pete Sampras

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Pete Sampras

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
Pete Sampras

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Martha Stewart

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
Billie Jean King

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
Billie Jean King

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Billie Jean King

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Billie Jean King

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
Billie Jean King

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
Billie Jean King

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.
John McEnroe

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

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
Gabriela Sabatini

It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
Gabriela Sabatini

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
Gabriela Sabatini

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini

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