#tennis

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. ↗

— Chris Evert

#after #because #big #going #important

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

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

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

— Chris Evert

#i #plays #robot #she #tennis

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. ↗

— Michael Chang

#basketball #bit #little #little bit #lot

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#i #i am #i do #part #tennis

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. ↗

— Albert Finney

#characters #each #film #got #haven

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#best #golf #played #tennis #watched