#ten

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis. ↗

— Chris Evert

#emotional #energies #even #lot #mental

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. ↗

— Chris Evert

#girl #give #give me #helped #i

Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven. ↗

— Zach Braff

#eleven #gay #looking #men #tens

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. ↗

— Chris Evert

#far #game #gotten #me #mental

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

I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown. ↗

— Zach Braff

#class #class clown #clown #clubs #find

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

— Chris Evert

#i #plays #robot #she #tennis

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me. ↗

— Zach Braff

#been #before #compelled #felt #guys

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#extent #group #illness #improve #marked