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Arnold J. Zarett
Though your game is hardly the bestYou can fray your opponent's nervesBy methodically bouncing the ballAt least ten times before your serves.
Author Unknown
Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.
Bill Cosby
The serve was invented so that the net could play.
Billie Jean King
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
Billie Jean King
A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
Billy Carter, while being taught a two-handed backhand shot
But that won't give me a free hand to hold the beer.
Hugo L. Black
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Jacques Barzun
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
Pete Sampras
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
Russell Lynes
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949
Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
 
 
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