"I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out."
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"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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"Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson."
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"I have a strong tennis arm."
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"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."
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"The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress."
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"If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with."
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"When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in."
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"Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it."
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"The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes."
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"I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around."
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"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."
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"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
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"Lleyton Hewitt... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness."
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"Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour."
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"Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life."
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"Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven."
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"Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there."
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"'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces."
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"A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win."
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