Tennis Autobiography Quotes

I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself. ~ Andre Agassi

I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep. ~ Andre Agassi

Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!) ~ Miley Cyrus

I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans. ~ Tomas Berdych

Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men. ~ Summer Sanders

I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies. ~ Sylvia Plath

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music. ~ Aaron Zigman

After I'm dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography. ~ Jarod Kintz

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. ~ Alessandra Stanley

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. ~ John Webster

I wear tennis shoes over and over again, and my black jacket. I always try to be comfortable. It's very important to me to wear comfortable shoes, which are hard to find - beautiful and comfortable at the same time. ~ Stephanie Sigman

Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace. ~ David Foster Wallace

I spent most of my time floating on an inflatable raft in the pristine Mediterranean waters, my big belly curving toward the sun, reading (incongruously) The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It rocked me to my core. Malcolm's story opened a window onto a reality I had ignored. But the greatest revelation the book brought me was the possibility of profound human transformation. I was spellbound by his journey from the doped-up, numbers-running, woman-beating, street-hustling, pimping Malcolm Little to a proud, clean, literate, Muslim Malcolm X who taught that all white people were the Devil incarnate - to his final, spiritual transformation in Mecca. There he met white people from all over the world who received him as a brother, and he realized that "white," as he had been using the word, didn't mean skin color as much as it meant attitudes and actions some whites held toward non-whites - but that not all whites were racist. At the time of his murder, he was anything but the hatemonger portrayed in the American press. Somehow, through the horrors that had been his life, he had become a spiritual leader. How had this been possible? ~ Jane Fonda

Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none. ~ Andre Agassi

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes. ~ Robert Griffin III

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. ~ Chris Evert

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer ~ Mike Ingham

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Rooster heads oddly resemble red surgical gloves on tennis balls. ~ Beryl Dov

He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court. ~ Lleyton Hewitt

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business. ~ Monica Seles

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all. ~ Mahesh Bhupathi

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling. ~ Serena Williams

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs. ~ Adolfo Cambiaso

Those two volleys really could be the story of this match summed up at the end of it. ~ Barry Davies

There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it. ~ Amelie Mauresmo

Shoes. I needed to get on my tennis shoes. I scrambled through my things on the floor and found them, shoving my feet in and tying the knots. Of course Kaidan Rowe would know what freesia smelled like. He probably had to take a flower course during lust training.
"Going somewhere?"
In my peripheral vision I saw him standing in the bathroom door. I wouldn't meet his eyes, afraid they'd be as stormy as they were after our kiss.
I stood and looked at the clock. It was nine. "Yeah, I'm going for a run."
"Mind if I join you?"
I huffed out a determined breath and looked at him now. "Only if you'll do something for me."
He raised his eyebrows in response.
"Teach me to hide my colors. ~ Wendy Higgins

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is. ~ John McEnroe

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ~ Joan Collins

I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before. ~ Lleyton Hewitt

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead. ~ Jarod Kintz

Quantum particles do not behave like tennis balls, but like the quantum particles they are. To get from one place to another, they take all the possible paths in space and time as long as these paths link their starting point to their end point. The particle [...] literally went everywhere. Simultaneously. To the left and to the right of the post. And through it. And outside the room. And into the future and back - until the moment when it hit a detector on the wall. ~ Christophe Galfard

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection. ~ Roger Rosenblatt

To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart," Richards notes, "is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart." Keith Richards from his autobiography ~ Keith Richards

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there. ~ H.L. Mencken

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass. ~ Marat Safin

I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me. ~ Serena Williams

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you. ~ Marat Safin

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes. ~ Jimmy Connors

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time. ~ Roger Federer

[ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis. ~ Karin Slaughter

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day. ~ Serena Williams

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. ~ Robert Pinsky

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities. ~ James Madison

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death. ~ Craig Briggs