#tennis

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#amazed #ask #autograph #i #me

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#anywhere #even #i #i think #life

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#basketball #become #blacks #deny #dominant

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#different things #drama #emotion #going #high

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game. ↗

— Serena Williams

#family #first #game #goes #love

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. ↗

— Serena Williams

#down #gun #keep #playing #shooting

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#ever #made #me #more #my time

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#fun #had #i #longer #match

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development. ↗

— Jim Courier

#development #encourage #intellectual #intellectual development #kind

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#decline #i #imagine #judged #made